Susan Buck-Morss
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| Alma mater | Vassar College (BA Cum Laude), Yale University (MA), Georgetown University (Ph.D. with distinction) |
| Era | 20th / 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Frankfurt School |
Main interests | Universal History |
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Susan Buck-Morss is an American philosopher and intellectual historian. She is currently Professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center.[1] and professor emeritus at Cornell University, where she taught from 1978 to 2012.[2]
Books
- The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute (1977)
- The Dialectics of Seeing. Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (1989)
- Dreamworld and Catastrophe. The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (2002)
- Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (2003) [Updated Edition, (2006)]
- Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009) Buck-Morss discusses this book in a talk entitled "From Hegel and Haiti to Universal History" in 2009