Name: Left Is Not Woke
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Author: Susan Neiman
ISBN: 9781509564101

Type

Physical Book

Author

Susan Neiman

Publisher

Polity Press

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3x13.7x1.3 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9781509564101

Edition No.

Synopsis "Left Is Not Woke"

If you're woke, you're left. If you're left, you're woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you're one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake. The confusion arises because woke is fuelled by traditionally leftwing emotions: the wish to stand with the oppressed and marginalized, to address historic crimes. But those emotions are undermined by widespread philosophical assumptions with reactionary sources. As a result, wokeism conflicts with ideas that have guided the left for more than 200 years: a commitment to universalism, a firm distinction between justice and power, and a belief in the possibility of progress. Without these ideas, the woke will continue to undermine their own goals and drift, inexorably and unintentionally, towards the right.One of the world's leading philosophical voices, Neiman calls with passion and power for the left to return to the ideals that built the best of the modern world.

Susan Neiman

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Susan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer. She has written extensively about the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics. Her work demonstrates that philosophy is a living force for contemporary thought and action.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Civil Rights Movement, Neiman left high school to join American activists working for peace and justice. She later studied philosophy at Harvard University, where she earned her PhD in 1986 under the guidance of John Rawls and Stanley Cavell. In the 80s, she spent six years in Berlin, studying at the Free University and working as a freelance writer. She was a philosophy professor at Yale and Tel Aviv University. In 2000, she took up her current position as director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.

Neiman has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center for Studies, and a senior fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She is the author of nine books, translated into 15 languages, which have won awards, including from PEN, the Association of American Publishers, and the American Academy of Religion. Her shorter articles have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and many other publications.

Neiman is the mother of three adult children and lives in Berlin.

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