EAN: 9780141983424

LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS - SUSAN NEIMAN KARTON...

'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to
pass' Brendan Simms 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.

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