Susan Neiman
Biographic Data
| ID | 455827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Neiman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Neiman |
| SIGNATURE | NEIMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Les ambivalences du progrès
Si le progrès est un principe de la modernité, c'est un progrès possible, et non nécessaire, qui repose sur une émancipation par le savoir et l'action collective. Or cette ambition est mise à mal par la prédominance des algorithmes sur l'espace public, le rejet de l'universalisme et la domination technique de la nature. Peut-on la renouveler
Que s'est-il passé le 7 octobre 2023
Les attentats commis par le Hamas en Israël les 7 et 8 octobre 2023 marquent une rupture dans l'histoire du Proche-Orient. Comment engager un travail intellectuel à la mesure de l'événement, qui entraîne déjà une polarisation des opinons publiques partout dans le monde ? À quel renouvellement de nos schémas d'interprétation sommes-nous appelés
La question du mal
La question du mal est une pierre d'achoppement pour la philosophie. Dans son dernier ouvrage traduit en français Penser le mal (Premier Parallèle, 2022), la philosophe américaine Susan Neiman montre le choc existentiel que représentent les expériences diverses et ordinaires du mal. Qu'il soit naturel ou moral, subi ou commis, le mal provoque la pensée et suscite l'interrogation sur le sens même de l'existence. Il est par excellence une grande qu…
Moral Progress
The overall aim of this book is to understand the character of moral progress, so that making moral progress may become more systematic and secure, less chancy and less bloody. Drawing on three historical examples—the abolition of chattel slavery, the expansion of opportunities for women, and the increasing acceptance of same-sex love—it asks how those changes were brought about and seeks a methodology for streamlining the kinds of developments t…
Antisemitism, Anti-Racism, and the Holocaust in Germany
Susan Neiman: I think there are two major failings in the German working through of the past, and I think they're connected. One is the utter failure to take account of East German anti-fascism, na
Justice and History
This article explores intergenerational justice and its connection to historic (in)justice and reparations. It includes both the post-war period, and the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, as case studies
Konrad Morgen
Unfit for the Future
Book Review| May 01 2016 Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement Persson, Ingmar and Savulescu, Julian, Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 154 pp. Susan Neiman Susan Neiman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 308. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3487808 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Pe…
Evil in Modern Thought
Forgetting Hiroshima, remembering Auschwitz
This paper uses two museum exhibitions to raise questions about how Hiroshima and Auschwitz are coped with in the present. The stake of the paper is to examine how it has been possible for different polities to come to terms with criminal pasts that should cause shame and guilt. The criminality of Auschwitz is established, but not that of Hiroshima. In the first instance, then, the paper establishes the extent to which the justifications for the …
Trust and Violence
Book Review| January 01 2014 Trust and Violence Reemtsma, Jan Philipp, Trust and Violence, trans. Bonfiglio, Dominic (2008; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012), 393 pp. Susan Neiman Susan Neiman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 141–142. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2374979 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Susa…
La terreur spectacle
Reclaiming the History of Ethics
The essays in this volume offer an approach to the history of moral and political philosophy that takes its inspiration from John Rawls. All the contributors are philosophers who have studied with Rawls and they offer this collection in his honour. The distinctive feature of this approach is to address substantive normative questions in moral and political philosophy through an analysis of the texts and theories of major figures in the history of…
Recent Books on Kant
Journal Article Recent Books On Kant Get access Kant’s Theory of Imagination. By Sarah Gibbons. (Oxford UP, 1994. Pp. viii + 199. Price £30.00.)Kant and the Experience of Freedom. By Paul Guyer. ( Cambridge UP, 1993. Pp. xv + 449. Price £45.00.)Aesthetic Judgement and the Moral Image of the World. By Dieter Henrich. ( Stanford UP, 1994. Pp. ix + 99. Price £9.95 p/b.)Dignity and Practical Reason. By Thomas E. Hill, ( Cornell UP, 1992. Pp. xi + 255…
The Structure of Faith
Perhaps the most decisive aspect of Kant’s work, for the subsequent history of philosophy, is his argument that questions concerning God, human freedom, and immortality involve objects beyond the realm of human knowledge. These questions had been, when not the main object of philosophical endeavor, the points around which all other philosophical inquiry revolved; no wonder that Kant’s placing them outside the province of philosophical speculation…
The Task of Philosophy
The first Critique tells us that all the interests of reason combine in three questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? A lesser-known passage of the Logic adds a fourth question—What is the human being? – and tells us that the first three questions are related to the last. Hence, Kant concludes provocatively, the whole field of philosophy could be reckoned to anthropology, whose business it is to tell us what is human (IX, 2…
Reason in Science
Kant continues the introduction to the “Transcendental Dialectic” with an uncharacteristically personal expression of perplexity: “Now that I have to give an explanation of this highest faculty of knowledge, I find myself in some difficulty [Verlegenheit]” (A299/B356).
Historical Sources
A revision of our understanding of Kant’s project requires a revision of our understanding of his relation to his predecessors. The task of this chapter is to provide one. My goal is not to present a detailed study that would trace historical influences on Kant’s thought, though I have often lrawn on such studies. The aim, again, is systematic reconstruction. If Kant’s goal is to provide a reinterpretation of the notion of reason, what philosophi…
The Primacy of the Practical
The clearest example of a regulative principle of reason is given to us as the categorical imperative. “Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature” is the principle by which our actions, insofar as they are moral ones, are guided. It cannot be known in any ordinary sense, nor does it give us access to knowledge: we are commanded to obey it but can never know whether we are successful in doing so.…
Kant and the Dynamics of Reason
The Unity of Reason
The Unity of Reason is the first major study of Kant’s account of reason. It argues that Kant’s wide-ranging interests and goals can only be understood by redirecting attention from epistemological questions of his work to those concerning the nature of reason. Rather than accepting a notion of reason given by his predecessors, a fundamental aim of Kant’s philosophy is to reconceive the nature of theoretical and practical reason, as well as his c…
The Unity of Reason
The Unity of Reason is the first major study of Kant’s account of reason. It argues that Kant’s wide-ranging interests and goals can only be understood by redirecting attention from epistemological questions of his work to those concerning the nature of reason. Rather than accepting a notion of reason given by his predecessors, a fundamental aim of Kant’s philosophy is to reconceive the nature of theoretical and practical reason, as well as his c…
Forgetting Hiroshima, remembering Auschwitz
This paper uses two museum exhibitions to raise questions about how Hiroshima and Auschwitz are coped with in the present. The stake of the paper is to examine how it has been possible for different polities to come to terms with criminal pasts that should cause shame and guilt. The criminality of Auschwitz is established, but not that of Hiroshima. In the first instance, then, the paper establishes the extent to which the justifications for the …
Antisemitism, Anti-Racism, and the Holocaust in Germany
Susan Neiman: I think there are two major failings in the German working through of the past, and I think they're connected. One is the utter failure to take account of East German anti-fascism, na
The Structure of Faith
Perhaps the most decisive aspect of Kant’s work, for the subsequent history of philosophy, is his argument that questions concerning God, human freedom, and immortality involve objects beyond the realm of human knowledge. These questions had been, when not the main object of philosophical endeavor, the points around which all other philosophical inquiry revolved; no wonder that Kant’s placing them outside the province of philosophical speculation…
The Task of Philosophy
The first Critique tells us that all the interests of reason combine in three questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? A lesser-known passage of the Logic adds a fourth question—What is the human being? – and tells us that the first three questions are related to the last. Hence, Kant concludes provocatively, the whole field of philosophy could be reckoned to anthropology, whose business it is to tell us what is human (IX, 2…
Reason in Science
Kant continues the introduction to the “Transcendental Dialectic” with an uncharacteristically personal expression of perplexity: “Now that I have to give an explanation of this highest faculty of knowledge, I find myself in some difficulty [Verlegenheit]” (A299/B356).
Historical Sources
A revision of our understanding of Kant’s project requires a revision of our understanding of his relation to his predecessors. The task of this chapter is to provide one. My goal is not to present a detailed study that would trace historical influences on Kant’s thought, though I have often lrawn on such studies. The aim, again, is systematic reconstruction. If Kant’s goal is to provide a reinterpretation of the notion of reason, what philosophi…
The Primacy of the Practical
The clearest example of a regulative principle of reason is given to us as the categorical imperative. “Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature” is the principle by which our actions, insofar as they are moral ones, are guided. It cannot be known in any ordinary sense, nor does it give us access to knowledge: we are commanded to obey it but can never know whether we are successful in doing so.…
Kant and the Dynamics of Reason
The Unity of Reason
The Unity of Reason is the first major study of Kant’s account of reason. It argues that Kant’s wide-ranging interests and goals can only be understood by redirecting attention from epistemological questions of his work to those concerning the nature of reason. Rather than accepting a notion of reason given by his predecessors, a fundamental aim of Kant’s philosophy is to reconceive the nature of theoretical and practical reason, as well as his c…
Recent Books on Kant
Journal Article Recent Books On Kant Get access Kant’s Theory of Imagination. By Sarah Gibbons. (Oxford UP, 1994. Pp. viii + 199. Price £30.00.)Kant and the Experience of Freedom. By Paul Guyer. ( Cambridge UP, 1993. Pp. xv + 449. Price £45.00.)Aesthetic Judgement and the Moral Image of the World. By Dieter Henrich. ( Stanford UP, 1994. Pp. ix + 99. Price £9.95 p/b.)Dignity and Practical Reason. By Thomas E. Hill, ( Cornell UP, 1992. Pp. xi + 255…
Reclaiming the History of Ethics
The essays in this volume offer an approach to the history of moral and political philosophy that takes its inspiration from John Rawls. All the contributors are philosophers who have studied with Rawls and they offer this collection in his honour. The distinctive feature of this approach is to address substantive normative questions in moral and political philosophy through an analysis of the texts and theories of major figures in the history of…
La terreur spectacle
Trust and Violence
Book Review| January 01 2014 Trust and Violence Reemtsma, Jan Philipp, Trust and Violence, trans. Bonfiglio, Dominic (2008; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012), 393 pp. Susan Neiman Susan Neiman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 141–142. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2374979 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Susa…
Evil in Modern Thought
Forgetting Hiroshima, remembering Auschwitz
This paper uses two museum exhibitions to raise questions about how Hiroshima and Auschwitz are coped with in the present. The stake of the paper is to examine how it has been possible for different polities to come to terms with criminal pasts that should cause shame and guilt. The criminality of Auschwitz is established, but not that of Hiroshima. In the first instance, then, the paper establishes the extent to which the justifications for the …
Unfit for the Future
Book Review| May 01 2016 Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement Persson, Ingmar and Savulescu, Julian, Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 154 pp. Susan Neiman Susan Neiman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 308. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3487808 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Pe…
Konrad Morgen
Justice and History
This article explores intergenerational justice and its connection to historic (in)justice and reparations. It includes both the post-war period, and the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, as case studies
Moral Progress
The overall aim of this book is to understand the character of moral progress, so that making moral progress may become more systematic and secure, less chancy and less bloody. Drawing on three historical examples—the abolition of chattel slavery, the expansion of opportunities for women, and the increasing acceptance of same-sex love—it asks how those changes were brought about and seeks a methodology for streamlining the kinds of developments t…
Antisemitism, Anti-Racism, and the Holocaust in Germany
Susan Neiman: I think there are two major failings in the German working through of the past, and I think they're connected. One is the utter failure to take account of East German anti-fascism, na
Les ambivalences du progrès
Si le progrès est un principe de la modernité, c'est un progrès possible, et non nécessaire, qui repose sur une émancipation par le savoir et l'action collective. Or cette ambition est mise à mal par la prédominance des algorithmes sur l'espace public, le rejet de l'universalisme et la domination technique de la nature. Peut-on la renouveler
Que s'est-il passé le 7 octobre 2023
Les attentats commis par le Hamas en Israël les 7 et 8 octobre 2023 marquent une rupture dans l'histoire du Proche-Orient. Comment engager un travail intellectuel à la mesure de l'événement, qui entraîne déjà une polarisation des opinons publiques partout dans le monde ? À quel renouvellement de nos schémas d'interprétation sommes-nous appelés
La question du mal
La question du mal est une pierre d'achoppement pour la philosophie. Dans son dernier ouvrage traduit en français Penser le mal (Premier Parallèle, 2022), la philosophe américaine Susan Neiman montre le choc existentiel que représentent les expériences diverses et ordinaires du mal. Qu'il soit naturel ou moral, subi ou commis, le mal provoque la pensée et suscite l'interrogation sur le sens même de l'existence. Il est par excellence une grande qu…
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