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What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation. Susan buck morss walter benjamins magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. She is widely recognized as a leading scholar of the work of the frankfurt school, especially the cultural criticism of t. Dec 08, 2019 buck morss the dialectics of seeing, turns her benjaminian eye on the often surprising convergence of the western and soviet utopian imaginaries, to dazzling effect.
Nov 17, 1989 in the dialectics of seeing, susan buck morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the passagen werk, or arcades project, as it might have taken form. Susan buckmorss postmodernism or the cultural logic of late capitalism. Benjamins dialectics of seeing demonstrate how to read these consumer dream houses and so many other material objects of the time from air balloons to womens fashions, from baudelaires poetry to grandvilles cartoons as anticipations of social utopia and, simultaneously, as clues for a. Hegel, haiti, and universal history av buckmorss susan. Hegel, haiti, and universal history offers a fundamental reinterpretation of hegels masterslave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prisonhouse of its own debates.