"Taugt Deutschland als Vorbild für Aufarbeitung und Bewältigung?". It simply isn’t so: after all, 10% of the country’s population had been members of the Nazi party, “and the most shocking, but also important thing, is they were not the uneducated masses. Mai 2020, "Sollte man Antifaschismus etwa nicht verordnen? This is a moving, deep, important book." The Nazis went very slowly and carefully to see what the population would accept.”, The idea of the long tail kept returning, and with it the fact that slavery did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. But in the beginning, East Germany did a better job. "Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans puts discussion of the horror of American anti-black racism into instructive, fascinating, and disturbing dialogue with rumination on the record of Nazism in Germany. 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. Mai - Erinnerung für die Zukunft", Catherine Mundt im Gespräch mit Susan Neiman, HR2, 8. Mai 2020, "Aufarbeitung ist keine Impfung", von Susan Neiman, taz, 10. But someone who’s a semi-outsider as I am, can, in fact, say that.”. Mai 2020, "Seit Trump wissen alle, dass Nazis nicht nur ein deutsches Problem sind", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 9.Mai 2020, Interview mit Susan Neiman, ZDF-Aspekte, 8. And, perhaps even more crucially, she has done so with an outsider’s perspective and the distance to ask difficult questions. Die Philosophin Susan Neiman über den Umgang mit der Vergangenheit". Juli 2020, "Man hat einfach die Schnauze voll von Trumps Politik", Interview mit Susan Neiman, NZZ, 8. Susan Neiman verknüpft persönliche Porträts mit philosophischer Reflexion und fragt: Wie sollten Gesellschaften mit dem Bösen der eigenen Geschichte umgehen? "Von den Deutschen lernen? We have to sort this through and say: ‘These parts of my national history I can be proud of and I can stand by, and these parts I’m sorry for and I’d like to do my best to somehow make up for.’ And I think, once you go through a process like that, you can begin to have a kind of healthy nationalism or patriotism. "Man hat einfach die Schnauze voll von Trumps Politik". (We meet in rural Ireland because she lives here, in a remote coastal town, for three months of each year, which she devotes entirely to writing; her next book is a novel. März 2020, "Deutschland hat eine Meisterleistung vollbracht", Interview mit Susan Neiman, NZZ am Sonntag, 2020/03/08, "Taugt Deutschland als Vorbild für Aufarbeitung und Bewältigung? Juni 2020, "Zwischen Hoffnung und einem möglichen Bürgerkrieg: Wohin treiben die USA? Men were deprived of their liberty by, for example, the invention of the crime of vagrancy, which was used to arrest African Americans and put them to work in mines and in factories, often with the collusion of the police.“If you start looking at the history between the Emancipation Proclamation, and Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott, it was neo-slavery or an age of racist terror rather than Jim Crow, which is a name that a lot of African Americans are rejecting. “They told me: ‘You cannot publish a book with that title. She also notes the importance of 1968, “a moment for confronting parents and teachers … and there was a sense of a sudden real wave of disgust and rebellion: what have you done?”. Der amerikanische Bürgerkrieg und der Mythos der "Verlorenen Sache". "Deutschland hat eine Meisterleistung vollbracht". Mai 2020, "75 Jahre Kriegsende “I really do see that our relationship to our nation is like a grown-up relationship to our parents. Neiman is a professional philosopher (director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, in fact) … "Wie wir uns erinnern, prägt unsere Zukunft". Juni 2020, "Von den Deutschen lernen", Online-Diskussion mit Ingo Schulze, Roter Salon in der Volksbühne Berlin, 3. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (cloth) ... problem with the book’s insistence that “East Germany did a better job of working off the Nazi past than West Germany.” Neiman, of course, did not pull this argument from thin air. Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Susan Neiman first came to West Berlin on a Fulbright scholarship in 1982. Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil Neiman left the city in 1988, a year before the Berlin Wall came down. Deutschland als Vorbild? Only, she says, when you decide to be an adult can you begin to effect change. Neiman writes about a number of historical factors, but the most important, in her opinion, was “civil engagement” by the German public, beginning in the nineteen-sixties. by Susan Neiman CNN, 2019/09/19, Learning from the Germans: Confronting racism and evil as a nation, ABC (Australia), RN Breakfast, 2019/09/20, "Philosopher Susan Neiman says Trump is evil — and she literally wrote the book", by Chauncey DeVega, Salon, 2019/09/24, "The Brexit lessons we can learn from postwar Germany", Interview with Susan Neiman, by Sam Delaney, The Big Issue, 2019/09/25, "Susan Neiman: “Neither the US nor the UK has a grown-up relationship to their pasts”", by Gavin Jacobson, The New Statesman, 2019/10/02, "In Learning from the Germans, Susan Neiman compares Germany's atonement for the Holocaust with the U.S. reckoning over slavery", by Elizabeth Renzetti, The Globe and Mail, 2019/10/04, "Learning from the Germans", C-Span2, BookTV 2019/10/13, "What Germany Can Teach Us About Facing the Past", The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, 2019/10/18, "What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History? It’s not the case that all a country needs to do is beat its breast and talk about its failures and its crimes, which is, of course, what the right always accuses people on the left of doing. ", Diskussion mit Aleida Assmann und Norbert Frei, SWR2, 5. "Seit Trump wissen alle, dass Nazis nicht nur ein deutsches Problem sind". ", Interview mit Susan Neiman, Republik (Zürich), 8. November 2020, "Wie wir uns erinnern, prägt unsere Zukunft", von Sabine Bitter, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), 8. In the end, the children played beneath the garden sprinklers; only years later did Neiman realise that it would have been against the law for them to have swum together. She was interested in Simone de Beauvoir's and Jean-Paul Sartre's books. She is thus well placed to examine the ways in which Germany and the USA remember (or don’t) the terrible crimes of the past, whether it is the holocaust or slavery and segregation. Susan Neiman is an American moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist. When the American philosopher Susan Neiman told her German friends that her new book would favourably compare Germany’s efforts to atone for the Holocaust with Publication date: 08/27/2019. “Whenever you say anything good about East Germany,” she says, “immediately somebody jumps up and says, ‘My God, you’re a Stalinist … ’ I’m not defending everything about it, of course. In early adulthood, Neiman went to Berlin to study Kant, leaving just before the wall came down in 1989; after a period at Yale and a return to Berlin, she spent five years living in Tel Aviv, arriving after the Oslo peace agreement and leaving before the second intifada. Von den Deutschen lernen. Neiman is also at pains to point out that this work was done more quickly and more effectively in East Germany – much of which went unnoticed because of the relentless focus on West German attempts at rehabilitation. One hot summer’s day, her mother invited an African American friend and her children over for the afternoon, and Neiman asked if they could all go to the outdoor swimming pool. Susan Neiman is the director of Potsdam's Einstein Forum, which encourages the exchange of ideas in open workshops, lectures and seminars. There is less agreement on what happened after the Holocaust, and whether Germany’s attempts to face that evil can be a model for other nations. As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward? She explains why the US and Britain should take note, Last modified on Mon 3 Feb 2020 11.48 GMT, When Susan Neiman’s German friends discovered she was working on a book called Learning from the Germans, they laughed. ― Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. Mai 2020, "8. 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. And if you haven’t done that, well, then you’re doing fairly well … you know, it’s as if we would like to have a large black hole that says, this is where you put evil and we don’t have to look at it.”, She has, she says, been shocked by the lack of knowledge in Britain about the Nazi period, which naturally leads us into a conversation about the fondness of rightwing politicians for invoking the glories of the war, “this nostalgia for the empire that you see all over the place with Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg and I suppose Boris Johnson too ... As if the empire really was a wonderful thing, as if it brought nothing but civilisation to the rest of the world.”. And it’s possible to come out the other side. She explains why the US and Britain should take note Fri 13 Sep 2019 03.59 EDT Marchers commemorate the lives lost in a shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, 2015. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2019 - 432 p. As one might expect from a philosopher – especially one who has side-stepped the academy to work across disciplines – Neiman is fascinating and potent on how the Holocaust has functioned on multiple planes, and primarily as an example of pure evil that, by consequence, allows other societies to divert attention from their own misdeeds. Allen Lane 2019 - 432 S. "Was kann man von den Deutschen lernen?". In Learning from the Germans, Susan Neiman compares Germany’s atonement for the Holocaust with the U.S. reckoning over slavery Elizabeth Renzetti Published October 4, … But you can certainly get an idea of: number one, how hard it is; number two, that it’s nevertheless possible; and number three, that a country can come out much better on the other side. What I think Germany shows is that a country can go through that process and come out the better for it. Juni 2020, Der amerikanische Bürgerkrieg und der Mythos der "Verlorenen Sache", von Susan Neiman, DER SPIEGEL (online), 9. Susan Neiman was born on March 27, 1955, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, in a Jewish family. This video features an interview with Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum. Juni 2020, "Aufarbeitungsweltmeister", von Fabian Wolff, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 13. Juni 2020, "Gegen das Böse hilft keine Impfung", Neues Deutschland, 23. Fing, 2019/09/11, "The Observer", by Anne McElvoy, 2019/09/16, East County Magazine, San Diego, by Dennis Moore, 2019/09/22, Nashville Scene, by David Dark , 2019/10/10, The Spectator, by Ian Thomson, 2019/10/12, "The New Republic", by Heather Souvaine Horn, 2019/10/31, The New York Review of Books, by Michael Gorra, 2019/11/07, The Guardian, by Michael Henry Adams, 2019/11/10, BBC HistoryMagazine, by Mary Fulbrook, 2019/12/01, Bookforum, by Eric Banks, Dec./Jan. In Learning from the Germans, Susan Neiman compares Germany’s atonement for the Holocaust with the U.S. reckoning over slavery ELIZABETH RENZETTI . “And what it seems to me we can learn is, be aware of the beginnings. Publication date: 08/27/2019. But I laboured on the chapter that talks about the east. Be aware of racism, be aware of nationalism. I fact-checked it; I had somebody else fact-check it. 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. Still no. "75 Jahre Kriegsende Publishers Weekly (starred review), May 2019, The New York Times, Book Review, by Deborah E. Lipstadt, August 2019, The Jerusalem Post, by Elaine Margolin, The Jerusalem Post, 2019/08/28, The Sunday Times, Book Review, by Trevor Phillips, September 2019, Washington Independent Review of Books, by Y.S. ISBN 978-3-446-26598-1 Which isn’t that my country is better than all countries. 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. “What one can simply do is strengthen the voices, and say it is absolutely time that we come to terms with parts of our past, we can’t sweep them under the rug. In Germany, she says, there has been anxiety about the regional elections and the growth of rightwing nationalism; but she doesn’t believe the movement is so widespread as to become a problem in the way that Brexit is in the UK, or Marine Le Pen in France, Matteo Salvini in Italy or Jarosław Kaczyński in Poland. The book's thesis is that we can learn from the Germans, who have faced their racist, anti-Semitic past. She has written extensively on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics, both for scholarly audiences and the general public. ", Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland, 10. No, came the answer. 1 likes. The author argues that German society has largely accepted responsibility for and learned from actions done by the country in the past, particularly in World War II, while the United States had not done the same, particularly for Jim Crow violations. Imploring and questioning did not change the answer. "Sollte man Antifaschismus etwa nicht verordnen?". Moral philosopher Susan Neiman has studied how Germany came to terms with the crimes of nazism. März 2020, "Von den Deutschen lernen", von Natascha Freundel, RBB Kultur, 10. "Der erste Schritt ist die Anerkennung eigener Verantwortung". Susan Neiman’s new book offers a roadmap to reconciliation and startling similarities between the US … Als dann mit Donald Trump ein Mann Präsident der USA wurde, der dem Rassismus neuen Aufschwung verschaffte, beschloss sie, dorthin zurückzukehren, wo sie aufgewachsen war: in die amerikanischen Südstaaten, wo das Erbe der Sklaverei noch immer die Gegenwart bestimmt. Susan Neiman talked about her book, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil, in which she examined lessons Germany and the U.S. … The lake, then? November 2020, "S. Neiman: Learning from the Germans", von Andreas Etges, H-Soz-Kult, Oktober 2020, "Posttribalismus für die Praxis", von Jan Plamper, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, Juli 2020, "Was für eine Provokation! von Susan Neiman April 2020, "Das Böse in der Geschichte", von Jan Plamper, Faust-Kultur, 5. It struck her that amid the horror lurked a hopeful moment – a moment of potential change – and that she herself had “some knowledge and experience that I could share, that might be helpful”. Erscheinungsdatum: 9. Britain and the US must do the same Though not a vaccine against racism, facing history is a necessary beginning, says the author and academic Susan Neiman Susan Neiman, an American philosopher and director of the Einstein Forum, asks how this discourse might benefit from a comparison with how East and West Germany gradually initiated the Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung regarding the Third Reich and its genocide against many ethnicities and groups in Europe, the Jewish people first among them. Juni 2020, "Reise in die Vergangenheit", von Christoph Nübel, FAZ v. 5. Die Philosophin Susan Neiman über den Umgang mit der Vergangenheit", SWR2, Tandem, 2. Philosopher Susan Neiman is a Jewish woman who grew up in the segregated south before living for decades in Berlin. Susan Neiman is a Jewish American philosopher who lives in Germany. Neiman’s mother campaigned for the desegregation of Atlanta’s public schools – an activity that earned her, as Neiman recalls, several late-night phone calls from the Ku Klux Klan. 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. It was that massacre, carried out by a white supremacist, that prompted Neiman, whose previous books include an examination of the concept of evil, to begin researching and writing Learning from the Germans. 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. We like to think that education provides immunity to racist and fascist ideology. When I remark that prejudice appears to become more and more entrenched, she counters that the resistance to that prejudice is also growing. Learning from the Germans. Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. 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. ", von Wolf Lepenies, Literarische Welt, 4. 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März 2020, "Slavery by Another Name", von Jamal Tuschick, Freitag Online, 2020/03/24, "Everybody knows about Mississippi", von Jamal Tuschick, Freitag Online, 2020/04/02, "Moon of Alabama", von Jamal Tuschick, Freitag Online, 2020/04/03. Juni 2020, "Der Holocaust und der Rassismus", von Thomas Steiner, Badische Zeitung v. 24. "Zwischen Hoffnung und einem möglichen Bürgerkrieg: Wohin treiben die USA?". It is necessary reading for all those confronting their own troubled pasts. Juni 2020, "Endlich aufräumen mit Ungerechtigkeiten", HR-Info, 12. 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. But she has got over that. Susan Neiman vergleicht den deutschen und den amerikanischen Umgang mit dem Erbe der eigenen Geschichte. ISBN: 9780374184469 "Germany’s Lessons on Confronting a Racist Past", Foreign Policy, 2021/01/30, "Historical Memory and National Trauma", This Is Democracy Podcast, 2020/10/21, "Author Susan Neiman on Germans/Holocaust vs. America/slavery – Germans Win", The Al Franken Podcast, 2020/08/16, "Germany paid Holocaust reparations. Übersetzt von Christiana Goldmann Author Susan Neiman examines Germany, Dixie and 'comparative redemption' Consider August 2015: As Britain and America turn insular, Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany to 1 million refugees. Mai 2020, "Erinnerung als Werkzeug und Waffe", von Susan Neiman (Auszug aus dem letzten Kapitel), Der Tagesspiegel, 3. Juni 2020, "Vorbild Deutschland? Free UK p&p on all online orders over £15. by Susan Neiman Race and the Memory of Evil She currently lives in Germany, where she is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. 11/20, 3. "75 Jahre nach Kriegsende - Wie soll Deutschland mit seiner Geschichte umgehen?". Susan Neiman, a citizen-philosopher who has never shied from difficult topics, has mustered her stylish pen, formidable intelligence, and unique experience as a southern Jewish expat in Germany to produce a nuanced work of conscience with urgent relevance today.” —Diane McWhorter, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Wie der Zweite Weltkrieg das Leben von Kriegskindern und Kriegsenkeln prägt". Susan Neiman is the author of Learning from the Germans. ), So what is the value now of focusing on Germany’s past? “By studying what they did and what they did wrong, I don’t think we can get a road map, because every country is particular. Susan Neiman in Berlin on May 28, 2017. 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. Doch sie blieb in Berlin und erlebte hier, wie die Deutschen sich ernsthaft mit den eigenen Verbrechen auseinandersetzten: im Westen wie im Osten, wenn auch auf unterschiedliche Weise. Mai 2020, "Was kann man von den Deutschen lernen? “Nothing else even comes close to it. Learning from the Germans. Moral philosopher Susan Neiman has studied how Germany came to terms with the crimes of nazism. Susan Neiman tackles that question in her richly rewarding, consistently stimulating and beautifully written Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. Susan Neiman is the director of Potsdam's Einstein Forum, which encourages the exchange of ideas in open workshops, lectures and seminars. And as we’ve seen in Britain where, you know, time has gone by, and people like falling back on national myths of greatness.” In part, she believes the Auschwitz trials marked a moment of change in which the burgeoning of mass travel connected ordinary Germans with other worldviews and there was an emergence of books by Holocaust survivors. Learning from the Germans: how we might atone for America's evils. This latter part was at the heart of a recent talk by the American moral philosopher Susan Neiman, whose most recent publication is What we can learn from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. 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. Juli 2020, "Rassismus in den USA", Susan Neiman im Gespräch mit Thomas Koch, WDR 5, 19. But if you don’t do that, you get explosions of things, like the kind of nationalism and racism that we’ve seen in so many countries lately.”. 2020, Global Justice in the 21st Century, by Richard Falk, 2019/12/08, The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC, by Jeremy Rutledge, 2019/12/20, The Christian Century, by Chris Hammer, 2020/01/17, Dublin Review of Books, by David Donoghue, 2020/01/17, The Times Literary Supplement, by Jonathan Sperber, 2020/06/05, National Catholic Reporter, by Jason Berry , 2020/06/10, BNN Bloomberg, by Pankaj Mishra, 2020/06/14, En attendant Nadeau, by Sonia Combe, 2020/09/16, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences, by Irit Dekel, 2020/12/31, English Edition The majority had academic degrees. In the course of writing the book, Neiman met and interviewed vast numbers of activists and citizens in the American south. Lässt sich – politisch gesehen – etwas von den Deutschen lernen? But it’s mine.”. Wie können Gesellschaften mit dem Bösen der eigenen Geschichte umgehen? What African Americans are currently withstanding – radically poorer health outcomes and inequality in education, judicial and incarceration systems, and police brutality directed predominantly towards young black men – is, Neiman argues, part and parcel of white America’s inability to face up to its past, and to the crimes it has committed against African Americans and Native Americans. From her home in Berlin, where she has lived for the past 22 years, Neiman watched Barack Obama give a heartrending eulogy to the dead, and then followed as governors began to order the taking down of Confederate flags, and Walmart announced that it would stop selling Confederate memorabilia. März 2020, "Der erste Schritt ist die Anerkennung eigener Verantwortung", von Frauke Steffens, FAZ v. 17. Susan Neiman: Conservatives will always say there is nothing to be gained in opening up old wounds – that you just destroy national pride and cause divisions. Susan Neiman, author of "Learning from the Germans" talks to Christiane Amanpour about how Germany came to terms with the crimes of Nazism and why the US should take note Ambitious and detailed, it ranges from the initial reluctance of German citizens to begin the process of truth and reconciliation to small-town Mississippi, and the shooting of nine African American churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, four years ago. Mai 2020, "Erinnerungsarbeit hilft", von Hannah Bethke, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 9. ", MDR Kultur, 18. ", Interview with Susan Neiman, by Alex Clark, The Guardian, 2019/09/13, "There Are No Nazi Memorials", by Susan Neiman, The Atlantic, 2019/09/14, "Tolerance, censorship and free speech", BBC Free Thinking, 2019/09/17, "What Germany can teach the US about facing its past," Amanpour. It’s just too harmless to describe what was actually happening.”. There’s nothing to learn from the Germans; we did too little and too late.’ And there is something paradoxical about saying: ‘Well, we committed this terrible crime, but weren’t we great at coming to terms with it?’ You can’t really say that. Als Susan Neiman, eine junge jüdische Amerikanerin, in den achtziger Jahren ausgerechnet nach Berlin zog, war das für viele in ihrem Umfeld nicht nachvollziehbar. On every level: in terms of bringing old Nazis to trial, in terms of teaching the period in schools, in terms of building monuments, and restoring concentration camps and making them educational.” Meanwhile, the west was so busy fighting a new conflict – “old Nazis were the best people to fight the cold war” – that efforts at serious denazification went by the board. One of the key questions she wanted the book to ask was, if we insist on saying that we have to remember the Holocaust in order to learn from it, then what do we want to learn? Susan Neiman. Mai 2020, "Von den Deutschen lernen", Susan Neiman im Gespräch mit Elisabeth Bronfen, Literaturhaus Zürich, 18. This week, Sam Goldman interviews Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum in Germany and author of Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil and Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Executive Director of … Slavery in the US continued by other means for at least 90 years, she argues, and was sometimes even more brutal than the previous regimes. 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. The work of Susan Neiman, a philosopher who studies Germany’s confrontation with its Nazi past, has particular resonance amid renewed discussions in the U.S. about how to … She stayed for six years, studied philosophy at the Freie Universität, taught, and worked as an author. Although some of it can be explained generationally, she replies, as people died off, “that won’t do the trick, as we’ve seen in the United States. It can be a source of strength and not weakness.”, Neiman does not stint on impressing on her readers the details of number one, drawing on a vast body of interviews – half, she estimates, didn’t even make it into the book – to explore how long history’s tail is. And it doesn’t.”, What, then, heralded the start of Germans en masse beginning to face the past? She is the director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. ISBN 9780241262863 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 Will the U.S. do the same for slavery? Susan Neiman’s Learning from the Germans is a harsh lesson for her native American South Today Topics Writers Podcasts Magazine More Search Account Magazine : 12 October 2019