Learning from the Germans. Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil.

Neiman, Susan.

ISBN 10: 0241262860 / ISBN 13: 9780241262863

Published by Allen Lane, Penguin Books, 2019

About this Item

24 x 16 cm, hardcover with dust jacket, 352 pages, Text in English, small tear to dust jacket, dog-ear, otherwise very good/ fine condition, see picture. 664g.

Seller Inventory # 83972

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learning from the Germans. Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil.
• Publisher: Allen Lane, Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241262860
• ISBN 13: 9780241262863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 664 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Filosofie

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Synopsis

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.