Hegel, Haiti and Universal History

Professor Buck-Morss’ lecture entitled “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 in the Department of Government, Cornell University, 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 books include Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh University Press, 2008), 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 Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (Free Press, 1977; 2nd ed., 2002).

Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature, the InterdisciplinaryHumanities Center, the Center for Black Studies, the College of Creative Studies, the Comparative Literature Program, the Departments of French and Italian, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies, and History.