Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil - Couverture rigide

Neiman, Susan

 
9780241262863: Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
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ISBN 10 : 0241262860 ISBN 13 : 9780241262863
Editeur : Allen Lane, 2019

Synopsis

'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to pass' Brendan Simms

As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward?

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, who grew up as a white girl in the American South during the civil rights movement, is a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin. In clear and gripping prose, she uses this unique perspective to combine philosophical reflection, personal history and conversations with both Americans and Germans who are grappling with the evils of their own national histories.

Through focusing on the particularities of those histories, she provides examples for other nations, whether they are facing resurgent nationalism, ongoing debates over reparations or controversies surrounding historical monuments and the contested memories they evoke. It is necessary reading for all those confronting their own troubled pasts.

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À propos de l?auteur

Susan Neiman is an American philosopher, cultural commentator and essayist. She writes for wide-ranging international audiences on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy, metaphysics and politics. Formerly a professor of philosophy at Yale University and Tel Aviv University, she is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Her previous books, translated into many languages, include Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin, The Unity of Reason, Evil in Modern Thought, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists and Why Grow Up? She currently lives in Berlin, Germany, where she is the director of the Einstein Forum.

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Éditeur
Allen Lane
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0241262860
ISBN 13 
9780241262863
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
432
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780374184469: Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0374184461 ISBN 13 :  9780374184469
Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019
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