Susan Buck-Morss © Sebastián Freire
Susan Buck-Morss is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at CUNY Graduate Center, and holds the title of Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Professor Emerita of Government at Cornell University, where she was a member of the graduate fields of Comparative Literature, German Studies, History of Art and Visual Studies, Romance Studies, and the School of Art, Architecture and Planning. Her books include “Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History” (trans. Suhrkamp Verlag 2011), “Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West” (2000); “The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project” (trans. Suhrkamp Verlag 2000), and “The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W.Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School” (2nd ed., 2002). “Revolution Today” will appear in spring 2019 (Haymarket Press) and her newest book, “YEAR 1”, will appear in summer 2020 (MIT Press).
As of February 2019