TALK: Hegel, Haiti and Universal History
Susan Buck-Morss (Government, Cornell)
Thursday, April 10 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
“Hegel, Haiti and Universal History” connects Haiti’s revolution to political universality, questioning the adequacy of multiculturalism and alternative-modernities as approaches to historical scholarship today. Susan Buck-Morss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory and member of the graduate fields of Comparative Literature, German Studies, History of Art and Visual Studies, and the School of Art, Architecture and City and Regional Planning. Her publications include Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (2003), Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (2000), and The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (1989).
Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature, Departments of French and Italian, History, Black Studies, German and Slavic Studies, Comparative Literature, and the IHC.
