"From Hegel and Haiti to Universal History": A presentation by Susan Buck-Morss February 26, 2009

Susan Buck-Morss is a professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of Government and professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Art History at Cornell University. She is currently researching and lecturing on politics and religion, theories of sovereignty, legitimacy and faith, and economies of political vision. Among other works, she is the author of Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (Verso, 2003) and Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press, 2000).

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