{"product_id":"learning-from-the-germans-race-and-the-memory-of-evil-9781250750112","title":"Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic \u003ci\u003eEvil in Modern Thought\u003c\/i\u003e, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's \u003ci\u003eLearning from the Germans\u003c\/i\u003e delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman who came of age in the civil rights-era South and a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin. Working from this unique perspective, she combines philosophical reflection, personal stories, and interviews with both Americans and Germans who are grappling with the evils of their own national histories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough discussions with Germans, including Jan Philipp Reemtsma, who created the breakthrough \u003ci\u003eCrimes of the Wehrmacht\u003c\/i\u003e exhibit, and Friedrich Schorlemmer, the East German dissident preacher, Neiman tells the story of the long and difficult path Germans faced in their effort to atone for the crimes of the Holocaust. In the United States, she interviews James Meredith about his battle for equality in Mississippi and Bryan Stevenson about his monument to the victims of lynching, as well as lesser-known social justice activists in the South, to provide a compelling picture of the work contemporary Americans are doing to confront our violent history. In clear and gripping prose, Neiman urges us to consider the nuanced forms that evil can assume, so that we can recognize and avoid them in the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250750112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Susan Neiman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648762998940,"sku":"9781250750112","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_af573a4e-470f-4db1-81af-04c9ec74b654.jpg?v=1603870963","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/learning-from-the-germans-race-and-the-memory-of-evil-9781250750112","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}