Susan Buck-Morss

Susan Buck-Morss is a professor of political science at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her publications include Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009), Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (2003), Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (2000), and The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (1991). 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.