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Susan Neiman

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American philosopher, essayist and cultural commentator (born 1955)

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Works
18

Top works

  • Kant's doctrine of reason
  • Left Is Not Woke
  • Nicin Büyümeliyim? Cocuksu Bir Cag Icin Altüst Edici Düsünceler
  • Modern Dusuncede Kotuluk
  • Ahlaki Aciklik

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1955-03-27

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
9
Total plays
13

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Quotes

  • [On members of the Nazi Party] [T]he most shocking, but also important thing, is they were not the uneducated masses. The majority had academic degrees. We like to think that education provides immunity to racist and fascist ideology. And it doesn't.
  • Whenever you say anything good about East Germany [...] immediately somebody jumps up and says, "My God, you’re a Stalinist..." I'm not defending everything about it, of course. But I laboured on the chapter that talks about the east. I fact-checked it; I had somebody else fact-check it. I knew that I was going to get a lot of flak for that. But in the beginning, East Germany did a better job. They just did.
  • How do we remember the parts of our histories we'd rather forget? Repression and revision are always options.
  • French schoolchildren can be proud to become citizens of the country that gave the world the Declaration of the Rights of Man; need they be told that it was disregarded a few years after it inspired the revolution in Haiti, whose leader, Toussaint Louverture, was consigned to death in a French prison?
  • Like many others, I came to philosophy to study matters of life and death, and was taught that professionalization required forgetting them. The more I learned, the more I grew convinced of the opposite: the history of philosophy was indeed animated by the questions that drew us there.
  • However long Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians struggle to find multiple meanings in this text, the dominant seems to be this: Abraham’s unquestioning willingness to heed gods command to sacrifice the thing he loved most is what qualified him to become the father of what are called still the Abrahamic faiths.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Susan
Gender
female
Citizenship
Germany
Place of birth
Atlanta
Occupation
writer
Languages spoken
German
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
John Rawls
Field of work
journalism
Official website
www.susan-neiman.com/en
Image
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name in native language
Susan Neiman
date of birth
1955-03-27
Commons category
Susan Neiman
writing language
English language
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