Susan Neiman asks: How should societies deal with the evil of their own history?
Monday, 18. May 2020, 19:00 – 20:00 h
At Literaturhaus Zurich, Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich
In her new book, Susan Neiman combines personal portraits with philosophical reflection and asks: How should societies deal with the evil of their own history? As a young Jewish American, she moved to Berlin in the 1980s and experienced how Germans dealt with their own crimes. She consciously returned to the USA under Donald Trump, to the American southern states where the legacy of slavery still defines the present.
Susan Neiman, born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1955, was a professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv Universities before taking over as director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam in 2000. Her most recent publication in German was "Warum erwachsen werden? Eine philosophische Ermutigung" (2015). She lives in Berlin.