Susan Buck-Morss

American philosopher and intellectual historian. She is currently Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York and professor emeritus in the Government Department at Cornell University. She is the author of the 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); Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History(2009).