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Susan Buck-Morss | |
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| Born | Susan Felmly Buck-Morss |
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| Thesis | Theodor W. Adorno: Historical Origins of His Theory (1975) |
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| Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School or tradition | Continental philosophy Frankfurt School |
| Main interests | Universal history |
Susan Buck-Morss is an American political theorist,philosopher,and cultural critic associated with critical theory,visual studies,and global political thought. [1] She is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center [2] ,and Professor Emerita of Government at Cornell University. [3]
Buck-Morss is widely recognized for her scholarship on Walter Benjamin,Theodor W. Adorno,and G. W. F. Hegel,as well as for her influential argument that the Haitian Revolution played a role in shaping modern ideas of freedom,specifically in Hegel’s conception of history. Her work is especially known for its reinterpretation of materialist and cultural history,the Frankfurt School,and the relationship between aesthetics,politics,and modernity.
She received the Frantz Fanon Prize in 2011. [4]
Buck-Morss earned her B.A. in European intellectual history from Vassar College,followed by an M.A. in history from Yale University,where she studied American history with C. Vann Woodward and Howard Lamar. A Fulbright-D.A.A.D. fellowship in 1968-69 enabled a year’s study in Germany (Tübingen) before continuing for her Ph.D. at Georgetown University in European Intellectual History. Her dissertation advisor was the Palestinian-born intellectual historian Hisham Sharabi. [5] In 1971-72,with funding from D.A.A.D.,she returned to Germany for research on her doctoral dissertation,later published as The Origin of Negative Dialectics:Theodor W. Adorno,Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School . In Frankfurt, she worked with Rolf Tiedemann,director of the Adorno and Benjamin archives,and she later edited volume 20 of Adorno’s Gesammelte Schriften (Collected Works),Soziologische Schriften II. She also undertook graduate study in philosophy, sociology,and psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt,where she attended seminars of Jürgen Habermas.
In 1976 she became a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS),a Washington D.C. think tank whose co-founder Marc Raskin assigned her to work with Institute Fellow and Chilean ambassador to the US under Salvador Allende,Orlando Letelier,shortly before Letelier was assassinated by a car bomb on the streets of Washington D.C. She continued to work at the IPS Amsterdam branch,Transnational Institute (TNI),when she met and worked with TNI Fellow John Berger,whose influence on her own writings in visual studies was significant. [6]
Buck-Morss joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1978,where she taught political theory for over three decades in the Department of Government,becoming a full professor in 1990 and later holding the Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Professorship of Government. [7] At Cornell,she also held appointments in the Graduate Programs of Comparative Literature,German Studies,History of Art,Romance Studies and the School of Art,Architecture,and City Planning. She served one term as the Director of Visual Studies. She continued research and teaching on the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School,and published a major study,The Dialectics of Seeing:Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project,in 1989. [8]
During her Cornell years,she held grants from the Guggenheim Foundation,the MacArthur Foundation,the Rockefeller Foundation,the Getty Foundation,and the Canada-United States Fulbright Program. [9]
In addition to her permanent appointments,Buck-Morss has held numerous visiting professorships and fellowships,including appointments at New York University,Pratt Institute,Rutgers University,Princeton University (Carpenter lectures),Cornell Society for the Humanities,Florida Atlantic University,Getty Research Institute,New School for Social Research,Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) in Moscow,Jan van Eyk Academie in Maastricht,and University of the Arts,London. [10]
Since 2010,she has been Distinguished Professor of Political Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City,where she is also a core faculty member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. [11]
Her books have been translated into numerous languages,including German,French,Spanish,Italian,Portuguese,Swedish,Polish,Turkish,Hebrew,Arabic,Urdu,Korean,Japanese,and Chinese.
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