Susan Buck-Morss

Susan Buck-Morss (1942) is Distinguished Professor of Political Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, where she is a core faculty member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. She is Professor Emeritus in the Government Department of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Her training is in Continental Theory, specifically, German Critical Philosophy and the Frankfurt School. Her work crosses disciplines, including Art History, Architecture, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, German Studies, Philosophy, History, and Visual Culture. She is currently writing on the philosophy of history: History as the Cosmology of Modernity. (2021)

Works

Monographs

• editor, Theodor W. Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 9: Soziologische Schriften II., Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1975. Republished as CD (Berlin: Digitale Bibliothek, 2003). [1] (German)

• The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute, New York: Free Press, 1977; London: Harvester Press, 1978; 2002. (English)
  • Origen de la dialéctica negativa: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin y el Instituto de Frankfurt, trans. Nora Rabotnikof Maskivker, Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1981, 383 pp; new ed., rev. Mariano López Seoane, Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia, 2011, 478 pp. (Spanish)

• The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, MIT Press, 1989; 1991. (English)
  • Dialektik des Sehens. Walter Benjamin und das Passagen-Werk, trans. Joachim Schulte, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1993; 2000. [2] (German)
  • Dialéctica de la mirada: Walter Benjamin y la dialéctica de los pasajes, trans. Nora Rabotnikof, Madrid: Visor, 1995. (Spanish)
  • Dialética do olhar: Walter Benjamin e o projeto das passagens, trans. Ana Luiza Andrade, Belo Horizonte: UFMG, 2002. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • 발터 벤야민과 아케이드 프로젝트, Seoul: Munhakdongne, 2005. (Korean)
  • He dialektike tou blepein: o Walter Benjamin kai to Schedio Ergasias peri Stoon [Η διαλεκτική της όρασης: Ο Βάλτερ Μπένγιαμιν και το Σχέδιο Eργασίας περί Στοών], trans. Αθανασάκης Μανόλης, Herakleio: Crete University Press, 2009. [3] (Greek)
  • Görmenin Diyalektiği: Walter Benjamin ve Pasajlar Projesi, trans. Ferit Burak Aydar, Istanbul: Metis, 2010. [4] (Turkish)
  • Ben'yamin to pasājuron: miru koto no benshōhō [ベンヤミンとパサージュ論: 見ることの弁証法], trans. Hiroko Takai, Tokyo: Keisōshobō, 2014. (Japanese)

• Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West, MIT Press, 2000. (English)
  • Rüya Âlemi ve Felaket: Doğu'da ve Batı'da. Kitlesel Ütopyanın Tarihe Karışması, trans. Tuncay Birkan, Istanbul: Metis, 2004. [5] (Turkish)
  • Mundo soñado y catástrofe: la desaparición de la utopía de masas del Este y Oeste, trans. Ramón Ibáñez Ibáñez, Madrid: A. Machado libros, 2004, 395 pp. (Spanish)
  • Belgrade: Belgrade Circle, 2005. (Serbian)
  • 꿈의 세계와 파국: 대중 유토피아의 소멸, Seoul, 2008. (Korean)
  • Yume no sekai to katasutorofi: tōzai ni okeru taishū yūtopia no shōmetsu [夢の世界とカタストロフィ――東西における大衆ユートピアの消滅], trans. Norio Horie (堀江則雄), Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten (岩波書店), 2008. [6] (Japanese)

• Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left, Verso, 2003; new ed., upd., 2006. (English)
  • חשיבה מעבר לטרור: על איסלמיזם ותיאוריה ביקורתית בשמאל, Resling Press, Israel, 2004. [7] (Hebrew)
  • Pera apo ton tromo: islau, kritikē thēoria kai aristera, trans. Phōtēs Terzakēs, Athens: Ekdoseis Alexandreia, 2005, 172 pp. (Greek)
  • Teroru o kangaeru: Isuramu shugi to hihan riron [テロルを考える――イスラム主義と批判理論], trans. Murayama Toshikatsu (村山敏勝), Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo (みすず書房), 2005. [8] (Japanese)
  • Küresel bir karşı kültür, trans. Süreyyya Evren, Istanbul: Versus, 2007, 139 pp. (Turkish)
  • Pensar tras el terror: el islamismo y la teoría crítica entre la izquierda, trans. Lorenzo Plana, Madrid: Machado, 2010, 212 pp. (Spanish)
  • Izuaren osteko gogoeta: islamismoa eta teoria kritikoa ezkerrean, trans. Pello Agirre Sarasola, Iruñea: Katakrak Liburuak, 2019, 213 pp. (Basque)

• Walter Benjamin, escritor revolucionario, trans. Mariano Lópex Seoane, Buenos Aires: Interzona, 2005, 299 pp. Collection of six essays on Benjamin. [9] (Spanish)

• Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. The book offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic by linking it to the influence of the Haitian Revolution. Buck-Morss discusses this book in a talk entitled "From Hegel and Haiti to Universal History", 2009. (English)
  • Hegel y Haití: la dialéctica amo-esclavo, una interpretación revolucionaria, trans. Fermín Rodríguez, Buenos Aires: Norma, 2005. (Spanish)
  • Hegel et Haïti, trans. Noémie Séguol, Paris: Lignes, 2006. [10] (French)
  • Hegel und Haiti: für eine neue Universalgeschichte, trans. Laurent Faasch-Ibrahim, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2011; repr., 2015; repr., 2018. [11] (German)
  • Hegel, Haiti ve Evrensel Tarih, trans. Erkal Ünal, Istanbul: Metis, 2012. [12] (Turkish)
  • 헤겔, 아이티, 보편사, Seoul: Munhakdongne, 2012. (Korean)
  • Hegel, Haiti in univerzalna zgodovina, trans. Kostja Žižek, afterw. Slavoj Žižek, Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2012, 173 pp. (Slovenian)
  • Hegel, Haití y la historia universal, intro. Claudio Lomnitz, trans. Juan Manuel Espinosa, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013, 232 pp, EPUB. (Spanish)
  • Hegel, Haiti i historia uniwersalna, trans. Katarzyna Bojarska, Warsaw: Krytyka Polityczna, 2014, 188 pp. [13] (Polish)
  • Hēgeru to haichi: fuhenshi no kanōsei ni mukete [ヘーゲルとハイチ: 普遍史の可能性にむけて], Tokyo: Hōseidaigakushuppankyoku, 2017. (Japanese)

• A tela do cinema como prótese de percepção, trans. Ana Luiza Andrade, Florianopolis, SC: Cultura e Barbárie, 2009, 37 pp. Trans. of "Cinema screen as prosthesis of perception". (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Voire le capital: théorie critique et culture visuelle, eds. & trans. Maxime Boidy and Stéphane Roth, Paris: Les prairies ordinaires, 2010. (French)

• with Emily Jacir, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, No. 004, Hatje Katz, 2011, 48 pp. ISBN 9783775728539 [14] (English)

• Predočavanje kapitala, trans. Olja Petronić, Novi Sad: kuda.org, and Zagreb: Multimedia Institute, 2014, 69 pp. PDF spreads. Trans. of "Envisioning Capital - Political Economy on Display" (1995). (Serbo-Croatian)

• Revolution Today, Haymarket Books, 2019. (English)

• Year 1: A Philosophical Recounting, MIT Press, 2021, 416 pp, EPUB. [15] (English)

Papers, articles

• "King Kong and the Palace of the Soviets", Umelec, No. 3, 2002. (English, Czech)
• "Global Left?", 2002. Position paper.
• "What are Iranian Demonstrators Saying?", 2003. Position paper.
• "Iraq's Elections", 2004. Position paper.
• "Visual Studies and Global Imagination", a talk presented at the Tate Modern in London on June 3, 2004 as part of the Surrealism Centre's Papers of Surrealism, the talk explores the possibilities of a critical Visual Studies in a globalized visual media
  • "Estudios visuales e imaginación global", Antipoda, No. 9, Jul-Dec 2009, pp 19-46, trans. Juan Manuel Espinosa. (Spanish)
• "Theorizing Today", 2006. Position paper.
• "Revolutionary Art: The Bolshevik Experience", 2006. Lecture.
• "Avant-garde Art and Bolshevik Time", 2006. Lecture.
• "The Masses", 2006. Lecture.
• "Vanguard/Avant-garde", 2006. Lecture.
• "The Second Time as Farce.. Historical Pragmatics and the Untimely Present", in The Idea of Communism, edited by Slavoj Žižek and Costas Douzinas, Verso, 2010, pp 67-80.

See also

• Walter Benjamin

Links

• Website
• Free Thoughts: Lectures Online, Position Papers, After-Images
• Profile on CUNY Graduate Center (archived)
• Profile on Cornell University (archived)
• Interview (2009)
• Wikipedia