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The Civic Imagination
Elena Marín 01Independent academic press · New York
Ideas with lasting consequence.
Independent publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
Selected new titles
New & forthcoming
Books for the long conversation.
Corso publishes original scholarship with intellectual reach—work that rewards close reading and remains useful well beyond its first season.
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Archives of Uncertainty
Julian Park 02
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Forms of Belonging
Amara Okafor 03Our list
Scholarship across boundaries.
We welcome books that are grounded in a discipline but alive to the questions unfolding beyond it.
Philosophy & intellectual history
Arguments that clarify enduring questions and recover overlooked traditions.
History & political thought
Serious histories of institutions, ideas, movements, and public life.
Cultural studies & social inquiry
Interdisciplinary work on meaning, identity, technology, and social change.
The Corso approach
Selective by design. Editorial by nature.
Corso Publishing is an independent academic press based in New York. We publish work that advances serious conversation across the humanities and social sciences.
We work with a focused list so each project receives close editorial attention—from proposal and peer review through design, production, and the sustained work of reaching readers. Our aim is straightforward: rigorous books, clearly made, with a life in classrooms, libraries, and public discourse.
01Ideas first
02Engaged editing
03Lasting readership
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