Professor Susan Buck-Morss
(Cornell University)

"Hegel, Haiti
and Universal History"

Susan Buck-Morss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of Government, Cornell University, and member of the graduate fields of Comparative Literature, German Studies, History of Art and Visual Studies, and the School of Art, Architecture and City and Regional Planning.

Her books include Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh University Press, 2008), Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (Verso, 2003); Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press, 2000); The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press, 1989); and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (Free Press, 1977; 2nd ed., 2002).

Her fields of teaching include: Critical Theory (Adorno, Benjamin and the Frankfurt School); Continental Philosophy (Bergson, Deleuze, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Lukacs) Visual Studies (Art and Politics, Critical Aesthetics); Islamism as Political Discourse; Theories of Globalization.

Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Center for Black Studies, the College of Creative Studies, the Comparative Literature Program as well as the Departments of French and Italian, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies, and History.