Product Description: This anthology by the editor and essayist Ricardo Cayuela, is an overview of the literary world of Octavio Paz aimed at young readers. The compilation says: "This anthology, specially made for that audience, wants to help dispel some of these appraisal errors with the best arguments, along with the own poems and essays of Octavio Paz...read more

Product Description: This notebook combines Palestinian artist Emily Jacir's photographs of the former Benedictine monastery of Breitenau, near Kassel, with a responding essay by renowned political philosopher and Walter Benjamin scholar Susan Buck-Morss.

In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation.  Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates.  Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human experience, and the unexpected linkages between cultures that the possibility to transcend limits is discovered. It is these flashes of clarity that open the potential for understanding in spite of cultural differences.  What Buck-Morss proposes amounts to a “new humanism,” one that goes beyond the usual ideological implications of such a phrase to embrace a radical neutrality that insists on the permeability of the space between opposing sides and as it reaches for a common humanity. 

Product Description: Renowned critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss argues convincingly that a global public needs to think past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism in order to dismantle regressive intellectual barriers. Surveying the widespread literature on the relationship of Islam to modernity, she reveals that there is surprising overlap where scholars commonly and simplistically see antithesis...read more

Product Description: The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia. As the century closes, this dream is being left behind; the belief that industrial modernization can bring about the good society by overcoming material scarcity for all has been challenged by the disintegration of European socialism, capitalist restructuring, and ecological constraints...read more

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Reconstructs and analyzes Benjamin's Passagen-Werk, a magnum opus that he did not live to complete, as it might have taken form