Susan Buck-Morss is an American interdisciplinary thinker, trained as a philosopher and intellectual historian. He has been interested in particular by Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. She has been a professor in the Government program at Cornell University1 and the graduate school at the City University of New York. As a teacher she has been interested in critical theory, literary theory and visual culture, continental philosophy, Islamism, Western political philosophy, theories about nationalism and globalization, theories of modernity and alternative modernities, and in visual studies. At Cornell she was the director of Visual Studies and a professor in the Government, Art History and German Studies programs. He obtained a PhD from Georgetown University in 1975 in European intellectual history. He also studied postgraduate studies in philosophy, sociology and psychology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.