Susan Buck-Morss

Susan Buck-Morss is a philosopher and cultural historian. She is a Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A longtime Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory at Cornell University’s Department of Government, she was also a member of Cornell’s graduate fields in Comparative Literature, History of Art, German Studies, and the School of Art, Architecture and Planning.

Literature

Books

• The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute, New York: The Free Press, 1977.
  • Origen de la dialéctica negativa, Siglo XXI editores, Mexico, 1981. (Spanish)
• Anatomy of Reaganism, 1981.
• The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, MIT Press, 1989.
  • Dialéctica de la mirada: Walter Benjamin y la dialéctica de los pasajes, Madrid: Visor, 1995. (Spanish)
• Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West, MIT Press, 2002.
  • Mundo soñado y catástrofe: la desaparición de la utopía de masas del Este y Oeste, Madrid: A. Machado libros, 2005. (Spanish)
• 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
  • Hegel y Haití: La dialéctica amo-esclavo, una interpretación revolucionaria, Buenos Aires: Grupo editorial Norma, 2005. (Spanish)
• With Emily Jacir, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, No. 004, 2012, 48 pp. ISBN 9783775728539 [1]

Articles

• Free Thoughts, selected papers and lectures by Susan Buck-Morss

External links

• Interview
• Susan Buck-Morss at Cornell University