Left Is Not Woke

Neiman, Susan

  • 出版商: Polity
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-29
  • 售價: $790
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$751
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 176
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1509564101
  • ISBN-13: 9781509564101
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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.

作者簡介

Susan Neiman is the director of the Einstein Forum. Her previous books, translated into many languages, include Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil; Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age; Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists; Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy; The Unity of Reason; and Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin. She also writes cultural and political commentary for diverse media in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Neiman studied philosophy at Harvard and the Free University of Berlin, and was a professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv Universities. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society as well as the Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften. Neiman is the mother of three grown children, and lives in Berlin.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Susan Neiman是愛因斯坦論壇的主任。她的前幾本書已經被翻譯成多種語言,包括《從德國人身上學習:種族和邪惡的記憶》、《為什麼要長大?:對幼稚時代的顛覆性思考》、《道德的清晰度:成熟理想主義者的指南》、《現代思想中的邪惡:哲學的另類歷史》、《理性的統一》和《緩慢的火焰:柏林猶太筆記》。她還為美國、德國和英國的各種媒體撰寫文化和政治評論。Neiman出生於喬治亞州的亞特蘭大,她在哈佛大學和柏林自由大學學習哲學,並曾在耶魯大學和特拉維夫大學擔任哲學教授。她是美國哲學學會和柏林-勃蘭登堡科學院的成員。Neiman是三個成年子女的母親,目前居住在柏林。