Name: Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
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Author: Susan Neiman
ISBN: 9780374184469

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Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

Type

Physical Book

Author

Susan Neiman

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm

Weight

0.68 kg.

ISBN13

9780374184469

Synopsis "Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil "

As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman who came of age in the civil rights-era South and a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin. Working from this unique perspective, she combines philosophical reflection, personal stories, and interviews with both Americans and Germans who are grappling with the evils of their own national histories. Through discussions with Germans, including Jan Philipp Reemtsma, who created the breakthrough Crimes of the Wehrmacht exhibit, and Friedrich Schorlemmer, the East German dissident preacher, Neiman tells the story of the long and difficult path Germans faced in their effort to atone for the crimes of the Holocaust. In the United States, she interviews James Meredith about his battle for equality in Mississippi and Bryan Stevenson about his monument to the victims of lynching, as well as lesser-known social justice activists in the South, to provide a compelling picture of the work contemporary Americans are doing to confront our violent history. In clear and gripping prose, Neiman urges us to consider the nuanced forms that evil can assume, so that we can recognize and avoid them in the future.

Susan Neiman

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Susan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer. She has written extensively about the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics. Her work demonstrates that philosophy is a living force for contemporary thought and action.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Civil Rights Movement, Neiman left high school to join American activists working for peace and justice. She later studied philosophy at Harvard University, where she earned her PhD in 1986 under the guidance of John Rawls and Stanley Cavell. In the 80s, she spent six years in Berlin, studying at the Free University and working as a freelance writer. She was a philosophy professor at Yale and Tel Aviv University. In 2000, she took up her current position as director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.

Neiman has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center for Studies, and a senior fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She is the author of nine books, translated into 15 languages, which have won awards, including from PEN, the Association of American Publishers, and the American Academy of Religion. Her shorter articles have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and many other publications.

Neiman is the mother of three adult children and lives in Berlin.

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