Susan Neiman: 8 books

Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition...

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...

De Amerikaanse filosofe Susan Neiman stelt in haar nieuwe boek de prikkelende vraag: waarom zou je volwassen worden? Volwassen worden wordt vaak geassocieerd met het opgeven van jeugddromen, om ze vervolgens in te wisselen voor een bestaan dat een fletse afspiegeling is van het avontuurlijke, vrije...

"Der Begriff Moral ist verpönt, ein Wort wie Held ist tabu, gut und böse tauchen nur mit Anführungszeichen auf", so Susan Neiman, Philosophin und Direktorin des Einstein Forums in Potsdam. Susan Neiman ist eine Moralphilosophin mit dem Anspruch, das Handwerkszeug ihrer Zunft so einzusetzen,...

A wry and witty meditation on modernity's obsession with youth and its denigration of maturity In Why Grow Up? the philosopher Susan Neiman asks not just why one should grow up but how. In making her case she draws chiefly from the thought of Kant and Rousseau, who articulated very different...

Susan Neiman zeigt in ihrem intellektuellen Aufruf, dass es neue politische Ideen braucht, um Populismus und konservativen Nationalismus aufzuhalten. Wenn heute den Fakten, der Vernunft und dem politischen Mitdenken nicht der Raum gegeben wird, den es bracht, werden die Lügen der "postfaktischen"...

Berlin--East and West, day and night--in the 80s before the Wall fell. Through the eyes of a U.S. philosophy student. And Jewish, which makes for moments awkward, poignant, crass, funny, and always lurking. A city was divided, America the occupier, and the cigarettes not named Salem because it sounds...

Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities...