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==Literature==
 
==Literature==
 
; Books by Buck-Morss
 
; Books by Buck-Morss
* editor, ''Theodor W. Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 9: Soziologische Schriften II.'', Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1975. Republished as CD (Berlin: Digitale Bibliothek, 2003).
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* editor, ''Theodor W. Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 9: Soziologische Schriften II.'', Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1975. Republished as CD (Berlin: Digitale Bibliothek, 2003). [http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/gesammelte_schriften_in_zwanzig_baenden_in_kassette-theodor_w_adorno_6511.html]
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5795 The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute]'', New York: The Free Press, 1977. Republished, 2002. London: Harvester Press, 1978. Paperback edition, 1979.  
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5795 The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute]'', New York: The Free Press, 1977. Republished, 2002. London: Harvester Press, 1978. Paperback edition, 1979.  
 
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5795 Origen de la dialéctica negativa]'', trans. Nora Rabotnikof, Siglo XXI editores, Mexico, 1981. (Spanish)
 
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5795 Origen de la dialéctica negativa]'', trans. Nora Rabotnikof, Siglo XXI editores, Mexico, 1981. (Spanish)
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8009 The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project]'', MIT Press, 1989. Paperback edition, 1991.
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8009 The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project]'', MIT Press, 1989. Paperback edition, 1991.
** Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1993; paperback 2000. (German)  
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** ''Dialektik des Sehens - Walter Benjamin und das Passagen-Werk'', trans. Joachim Schulte, Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1993; paperback 2000. (German) [http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/dialektik_des_sehens-susan_buck-morss_58145.html]
 
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8009 Dialéctica de la mirada: Walter Benjamin y la dialéctica de los pasajes]'', Madrid: Visor, 1995. (Spanish)
 
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8009 Dialéctica de la mirada: Walter Benjamin y la dialéctica de los pasajes]'', Madrid: Visor, 1995. (Spanish)
 
** San Paulo, 2002. (Portuguese)
 
** San Paulo, 2002. (Portuguese)
** Seoul: 2005. (Korean)  
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** Seoul, 2005. (Korean)  
** Crete University Press, 2009. (Greek)
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** ''Η ΔΙΑΛΕΚΤΙΚΗ ΤΟΥ ΒΛΕΠΕΙΝ: Ο Βάλτερ Μπένγιαμιν και το Σχέδιο Eργασίας περί Στοών'', trans. Αθανασάκης Μανόλης, Crete University Press, 2009. (Greek) [http://www.cup.gr/%CE%97-%CE%94%CE%99%CE%91%CE%9B%CE%95%CE%9A%CE%A4%CE%99%CE%9A%CE%97-%CE%A4%CE%9F%CE%A5-%CE%92%CE%9B%CE%95%CE%A0%CE%95%CE%99%CE%9D_p-279677.aspx?LangId=2]
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5515 Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West]'', MIT Press, 2000. Paperback edition, 2002.  
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5515 Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West]'', MIT Press, 2000. Paperback edition, 2002.  
 
** ''Mundo soñado y catástrofe: la desaparición de la utopía de masas del Este y Oeste'', Madrid: A. Machado libros, 2005. (Spanish)
 
** ''Mundo soñado y catástrofe: la desaparición de la utopía de masas del Este y Oeste'', Madrid: A. Machado libros, 2005. (Spanish)
 
** Belgrade: Belgrade Circle, 2005. (Serbian)
 
** Belgrade: Belgrade Circle, 2005. (Serbian)
 
** Istanbul: Metis, 2005. (Turkish)
 
** Istanbul: Metis, 2005. (Turkish)
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** ''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. 堀江則雄 (Norio Horie), Tokyo: 岩波書店 (Iwanami Shoten Publishers), 2008. (Japanese) [http://www.iwanami.co.jp/.BOOKS/00/3/0023540.html]
 
* ''Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left'', Verso, 2003. / ''Updated Edition'', 2006.
 
* ''Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left'', Verso, 2003. / ''Updated Edition'', 2006.
 
** Athens, 2003. (Greek)
 
** Athens, 2003. (Greek)
** Tokyo, 2003. (Japanese)
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** ''חשיבה מעבר לטרור: על איסלמיזם ותיאוריה ביקורתית בשמאל'', Resling Press, Israel, 2004. (Hebrew) [http://www.resling.co.il/book.asp?series_id=1&book_id=91&back=catalog]
** Resling Press, Israel, 2004. (Hebrew)  
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** ''テロルを考える――イスラム主義と批判理論'', trans. 村山敏勝 (Murayama Toshikatsu), Tokyo: みすず書房 (Misuzu Shobo), 2005. (Japanese) [http://www.msz.co.jp/book/detail/07147.html]
 
* ''[http://scribd.com/doc/21240832/Buck-Morss-Susan-Walter-Benjamin-escritor-revolucionario-2005 Walter Benjamin, escritor revolucionario]'', trans. Mariano Lópex Seoane, Buenos Aires: Interzona, 2005. (Spanish)
 
* ''[http://scribd.com/doc/21240832/Buck-Morss-Susan-Walter-Benjamin-escritor-revolucionario-2005 Walter Benjamin, escritor revolucionario]'', trans. Mariano Lópex Seoane, Buenos Aires: Interzona, 2005. (Spanish)
 
* ''[http://copyfight.tk/Acervo/livros/BUCK-MORSS,%20Susan%20-%20A%20tela%20do%20cinema%20como%20pro%CC%81tese%20de%20percepc%CC%A7a%CC%83o.pdf A tela do cinema como prótese de percepção]'', trans. Ana Luiza Andrade, Coleção Parrhesia, 2009, 46 pp. (Portuguese)
 
* ''[http://copyfight.tk/Acervo/livros/BUCK-MORSS,%20Susan%20-%20A%20tela%20do%20cinema%20como%20pro%CC%81tese%20de%20percepc%CC%A7a%CC%83o.pdf A tela do cinema como prótese de percepção]'', trans. Ana Luiza Andrade, Coleção Parrhesia, 2009, 46 pp. (Portuguese)
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** ''[http://scribd.com/doc/102440841/Buck-Morss-Susan-Hegel-y-Haiti Hegel y Haití: La dialéctica amo-esclavo, una interpretación revolucionaria]'', Buenos Aires: Grupo editorial Norma, 2005. (Spanish)
 
** ''[http://scribd.com/doc/102440841/Buck-Morss-Susan-Hegel-y-Haiti Hegel y Haití: La dialéctica amo-esclavo, una interpretación revolucionaria]'', Buenos Aires: Grupo editorial Norma, 2005. (Spanish)
 
** ''Hegel et Haïti'', trans. Noémie Ségol, Paris: Éditions Lignes, 2006. (French)
 
** ''Hegel et Haïti'', trans. Noémie Ségol, Paris: Éditions Lignes, 2006. (French)
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** ''Hegel und Haiti - Für eine neue Universalgeschichte'', trans. Laurent Faasch-Ibrahim, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2011. (German) [http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/hegel_und_haiti-susan_buck-morss_12623.html]
 
* With Emily Jacir, ''[http://ge.tt/api/1/files/6kd7jXf/0/blob?download 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, No. 004]'', Hatje Katz, 2011, 48 pp. ISBN 9783775728539 [http://d13.documenta.de/#publications/?tx_publications_pi1%5Bdetails%5D=15&cHash=10e040336787f97f99038643dbcf8ec3]
 
* With Emily Jacir, ''[http://ge.tt/api/1/files/6kd7jXf/0/blob?download 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, No. 004]'', Hatje Katz, 2011, 48 pp. ISBN 9783775728539 [http://d13.documenta.de/#publications/?tx_publications_pi1%5Bdetails%5D=15&cHash=10e040336787f97f99038643dbcf8ec3]
  
 
; Other writings by Buck-Morss
 
; Other writings by Buck-Morss
* [http://divus.cc/london/en/article/king-kong-and-the-palace-of-the-soviets "King Kong and the Palace of the Soviets"], ''Umelec'', No. 3, 2002. (English, Czech)
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* "[http://divus.cc/london/en/article/king-kong-and-the-palace-of-the-soviets King Kong and the Palace of the Soviets]", ''Umelec'', No. 3, 2002. (English, Czech)
* "Global Left?", 2002. Position paper.
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* "[http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/global%20left.pdf Global Left?]", 2002. Position paper.
* "What are Iranian Demonstrators Saying?", 2003. Position paper.
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* "[http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/Iranian%20Demonstrators.pdf What are Iranian Demonstrators Saying?]", 2003. Position paper.
* [http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/iraqi%20elections.pdf "Iraq's Elections"], 2004. Position paper.  
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* "[http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/iraqi%20elections.pdf Iraq's Elections]", 2004. Position paper.  
* [http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/publications/papers/journal2/acrobat_files/buck_morss_article.pdf "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
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* "[http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/publications/papers/journal2/acrobat_files/buck_morss_article.pdf 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
 
** "[http://scribd.com/doc/84821207/Buck-Morss-Susan-Estudios-visuales-e-imaginacion-global-2009 Estudios visuales e imaginación global]", trans. Juan Manuel Espinosa, ''Antipoda'', No. 9, Jul-Dec 2009, pp 19-46. (Spanish)
 
** "[http://scribd.com/doc/84821207/Buck-Morss-Susan-Estudios-visuales-e-imaginacion-global-2009 Estudios visuales e imaginación global]", trans. Juan Manuel Espinosa, ''Antipoda'', No. 9, Jul-Dec 2009, pp 19-46. (Spanish)
 
* [http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/theorizing%20today.pdf "Theorizing Today"], 2006. Position paper.  
 
* [http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/theorizing%20today.pdf "Theorizing Today"], 2006. Position paper.  
* [http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/Revolutionary%20Art.pdf "Revolutionary Art: The Bolshevik Experience"]. Lecture.
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* [http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/Revolutionary%20Art.pdf "Revolutionary Art: The Bolshevik Experience"], 2006. Lecture.
* [http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/Art%20and%20Bolshevik%20Time.pdf "Avant-garde Art and Bolshevik Time"]. Lecture.
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* [http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/Art%20and%20Bolshevik%20Time.pdf "Avant-garde Art and Bolshevik Time"], 2006. Lecture.
* [http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/Masses.pdf "The Masses"]. Lecture.
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* [http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/Masses.pdf "The Masses"], 2006. Lecture.
* [http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/Vanguard%20Avant-garde.pdf "Vanguard/Avant-garde"], c2006. Lecture.
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* [http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Documents/Vanguard%20Avant-garde.pdf "Vanguard/Avant-garde"], 2006. Lecture.
 
* "The Second Time as Farce.. Historical Pragmatics and the Untimely Present", in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2763 The Idea of Communism]'', edited by Slavoj Žižek and Costas Douzinas, Verso, 2010, pp 67-80.
 
* "The Second Time as Farce.. Historical Pragmatics and the Untimely Present", in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2763 The Idea of Communism]'', edited by Slavoj Žižek and Costas Douzinas, Verso, 2010, pp 67-80.
  

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Susan Buck-Morss is a philosopher and cultural historian. She is a Professor of Political Science at CUNY Graduate Center, New York[1]. She graduated from Yale University, and received Ph.D. in European Intellectual History from Georgetown University (1975) with her Dissertation "Theodor W. Adorno and the Genesis of Critical Theory". A longtime professor at Cornell University's Department of Government, Buck-Morss was also a member of Cornell's graduate fields in Comparative Literature, History of Art, German Studies, and the School of Architecture, Art, and City and Regional Planning. She is on the editorial boards of several journals and has been an invited lecturer at dozens of universities worldwide. Her numerous international awards and fellowships include a Getty Scholar grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Literature

Books by Buck-Morss
  • editor, Theodor W. Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 9: Soziologische Schriften II., Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1975. Republished as CD (Berlin: Digitale Bibliothek, 2003). [2]
  • The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute, New York: The Free Press, 1977. Republished, 2002. London: Harvester Press, 1978. Paperback edition, 1979.
  • The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, MIT Press, 1989. Paperback edition, 1991.
    • Dialektik des Sehens - Walter Benjamin und das Passagen-Werk, trans. Joachim Schulte, Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1993; paperback 2000. (German) [3]
    • Dialéctica de la mirada: Walter Benjamin y la dialéctica de los pasajes, Madrid: Visor, 1995. (Spanish)
    • San Paulo, 2002. (Portuguese)
    • Seoul, 2005. (Korean)
    • Η ΔΙΑΛΕΚΤΙΚΗ ΤΟΥ ΒΛΕΠΕΙΝ: Ο Βάλτερ Μπένγιαμιν και το Σχέδιο Eργασίας περί Στοών, trans. Αθανασάκης Μανόλης, Crete University Press, 2009. (Greek) [4]
  • Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West, MIT Press, 2000. Paperback edition, 2002.
    • Mundo soñado y catástrofe: la desaparición de la utopía de masas del Este y Oeste, Madrid: A. Machado libros, 2005. (Spanish)
    • Belgrade: Belgrade Circle, 2005. (Serbian)
    • Istanbul: Metis, 2005. (Turkish)
    • 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. 堀江則雄 (Norio Horie), Tokyo: 岩波書店 (Iwanami Shoten Publishers), 2008. (Japanese) [5]
  • Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left, Verso, 2003. / Updated Edition, 2006.
    • Athens, 2003. (Greek)
    • חשיבה מעבר לטרור: על איסלמיזם ותיאוריה ביקורתית בשמאל, Resling Press, Israel, 2004. (Hebrew) [6]
    • テロルを考える――イスラム主義と批判理論, trans. 村山敏勝 (Murayama Toshikatsu), Tokyo: みすず書房 (Misuzu Shobo), 2005. (Japanese) [7]
  • Walter Benjamin, escritor revolucionario, trans. Mariano Lópex Seoane, Buenos Aires: Interzona, 2005. (Spanish)
  • A tela do cinema como prótese de percepção, trans. Ana Luiza Andrade, Coleção Parrhesia, 2009, 46 pp. (Portuguese)
  • Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. 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.
  • With Emily Jacir, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, No. 004, Hatje Katz, 2011, 48 pp. ISBN 9783775728539 [9]
Other writings by Buck-Morss

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