Professor Mark Cladis publishes his latest book, Radical Romanticism: Democracy, Religion, and the Environmental Imagination (September 2025).

“Romanticism is often reduced to nostalgic pastoralism and solitary contemplation of the sublime. But a radical strand of Romantic writers and thinkers offered sweeping political, ecological, and religious critiques of capitalism, racism, settler colonialism, and environmental destruction. Interweaving canonical nineteenth-century authors with Black and Indigenous thinkers who transformed their work, this book is a bold new account of Romanticism for today’s deeply entrenched crises.”
— Columbia University Press

Watch “On Radical Romanticism: Mark Cladis in conversation with Jonathon Kahn” on The Philosopher podcast.

Read the Earth Month Q&A “Listening to the Earth - Radical Romanticism for a Time of Ecological Crisis - Mark S. Cladis” on the Columbia University Press Blog.

For more information on the book, please visit the Columbia University Press website.