Thinking past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism
Susan Buck-Morss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory at Cornell University. She is the author of Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt Institute.
An insightful and important new edition to critical theory for our
century.
*Clamor*
This is a highly appealing scenario of communication producing and
illuminating dissent.
*Bookforum*
Thoughtfully and insightfully written ... Thinking Past Terror
looks forward to the goal of a cosmopolitan Left that can find
unity and strength to remain viable in ever-changing times.
*Bookwatch*
Susan Buck-Morss enables us to discover the Islamists as our
neighbors: neither as fundamentalist fanatics unable to cope with
modernity, nor as the exotic authentic Other, but as people sharing
the same global predicament as ourselves.
*Slavoj Zizek*
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