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

Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

at the CUNY Graduate Center, and professor emeritus in the Government Department at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

, where she taught from 1978 to 2012. Her interdisciplinary work involves but is not limited to the fields of

Art History Art history is the study of Work of art, artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Tradit ...

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

Comparative Literature Comparative literature studies is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across language, linguistic, national, geographic, and discipline, disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role ...

Cultural Studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...

German studies German studies is an academic field that researches, documents and disseminates German language, literature, and culture in its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies therefore often focus on German culture, German h ...

History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

Philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

, and Visual Studies. She has won a Getty Scholar Grant, a Fulbright Award, and a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

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).

Books

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

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Buck-Morss discusses her intellectual formation in an interview with Peter Shea
20th-century American philosophers American political philosophers Living people Walter Benjamin scholars CUNY Graduate Center faculty Vassar College alumni Yale University alumni 21st-century American philosophers 1942 births {{US-philosopher-stub