Susan Buck-Morss | |
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| Born | Susan Felmly Buck-Morss 1942 (age 82–83) |
| Academic background | |
| Education |
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| Thesis | Theodor W. Adorno: Historical Origins of His Theory (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hisham Sharabi, Norman Levine, David Goldfrank |
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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 (1942) is an American philosopher,visual theorist,and intellectual historian.
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]