Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History

Name: Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
Author: Susan Buck-Morss

by Susan Buck-Morss

Theorization of the Haitian Revolution as moment of universal history

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Susan Buck-Morss

American political philosopher and cultural theorist whose Dialectics of Seeing is the finest study of Benjamin's Arcades Project. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History argued that Hegel's master-slave dialectic was inspired by the Haitian Revolution. She is one of the most original and far-ranging thinkers in the Benjamin tradition.

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