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Penguin Books Ltd - Learning from the germans | susan neiman

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• 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 pastIn 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