Prestigious publication grant awarded by French Embassy

SUNY Press has received a prestigious Hemingway Grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy supporting the forthcoming publication of Guilty, an important work by the 20th-century French philosopher Georges Bataille. Translated and with an introduction by Stuart Kendall, Guilty will be published in January 2011 in the SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought, edited by David Pettigrew and Francois Raffoul. Check back often to our website for further details on this exciting new translation, the first to include the full text of Bataille's Oeuvres Completes.

Sartwell's blog, videos, and more

Long-time SUNY Press author Crispin Sartwell has set up his own YouTube channel called crispytheok. Crispin is a philosophy professor at Dickinson College, along with being a self-described amateur magician (check out his magic work in the videos), and professional anarchist.

Speaking of anarchy, Crispin's latest book with the Press, Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory, provides an incisive critique of liberal theories of the state. The working title was Philosophy Bomb!, so you know it's going to be interesting. Crispin expounds on the book's arguments in a series of YouTube videos as well.

For more from Crispin, check out his blog, Eye of the Storm, where he's busy "serving all your concrete slab and abudment needs" on a regular basis.