Thinking Past Terror Pa

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Pub. Date: 2006-09-17
Publisher(s): VERSO
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Summary

The renowned critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss argues convincingly that a global public needs to think past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND CREDITS vii
INTRODUCTION 1(20)
ONE A GLOBAL PUBLIC SPHERE? 21(20)
TWO CRITICAL THEORY AND ISLAMISM 41(22)
THREE A GLOBAL COUNTER-CULTURE? 63(18)
FOUR ART IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE 81(11)
FIVE CAN THERE BE A GLOBAL LEFT? 92(21)
SIX INTERVIEW: SUSAN BUCK-MORSS WITH LAURA MULVEY AND MARQ SMITH 113(22)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 135(6)
INDEX 141

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