Susan Buck-Morss, February 24, 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), Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press, 2000), The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press, 1989), and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute (Macmillan Free Press, 1977).
The interview can also be downloaded as a video podcast (127.9 MB) or as an audio file (.mp3 – 53.6 MB).
You might also be interested Buck-Morss’ lecture, also in 2009, “From Hegel and Haiti to Universal History.” http://ias.umn.edu/2009/02/26/buck-morss-susan-2/
Tagged Art History, Disaster, Government, Islam, Susan Buck-Morss, Terrorism, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin