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Reading the dominant narrative of Western triumphalism after 1989 against the grain, Susan Buck-Morss reaches back to the moment when the dreamworlds of mass utopia were not yet revealed as recipes for disaster. Boldly blasting their residues into new constellations of fragile hope, she unsettles our conventional wisdom about the lessons of the 20th century and provides arresting new ways to think about the possibilities of the 21st. -- Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

About the Author

Susan Buck-Morss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory, Department of Government, and Professor of Visual Culture, Department of Art History, Cornell University.