Susan Buck-Morss

Susan Buck-Morss (1942) is an American philosopher, visual theorist, and intellectual historian.

Susan Buck-Morss
Born	1942
Education
Education	Vassar College (AB) Yale University (MA) Georgetown University (PhD)
Philosophical work
Era	20th-/21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Frankfurt School
Main interests	Universal history

She is currently Professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center,^[1] and professor emeritus in the Government Department at Cornell University, where she taught from 1978 to 2012.^[2] Her interdisciplinary work involves but is not limited to the fields of Art History, Architecture, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, German studies, History, Philosophy, and Visual Studies.^[3] She has won a Getty Scholar Grant,^[4] a Fulbright Award,^[5] and a Guggenheim Fellowship^[6] for her work. Awards from the MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Fulbright Program funded the research towards her book Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press, 2000).^[1]

Books

• The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute (1977)^[7]
• The Dialectics of Seeing. Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (1989)^[8]
• Dreamworld and Catastrophe. The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (2002)^[9]
• Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (2003) [Updated Edition, (2006)]^[10]
• Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009)^[11]
• Revolution Today (2019) Haymarket Press.
• Year 1: A Philosophical Recounting (2021), MIT Press.
• Seeing↔Making Room for Thought (2023), Inventory Press.