Region Western Philosophy Education Harvard University Schools of thought Liberalism | Role Philosopher Name Susan Neiman | |
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Born March 27, 1955 (age 68) ( 1955-03-27 ) Atlanta, Georgia Main interests Morality · History of philosophy · Political philosophy · Philosophy of religion Philosophical era Contemporary philosophy, 20th-century philosophy Influenced by Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, John Rawls, Stanley Cavell Books Moral Clarity: A Guide for, Evil in Modern Thought, Why Grow Up?: Subversiv, The unity of reason, Slow Fire: Jewish Notes fro Similar People Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, John Rawls, Socrates, Stanley Cavell | ||
Interview prof susan neiman berlin 05 01 2015 engl
Susan Neiman (born March 27, 1955) is an American moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist. She has written extensively on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics, both for scholarly audiences and the general public. She currently lives in Germany, where she is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.
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- Interview prof susan neiman berlin 05 01 2015 engl
- Philosophy evil susan neiman
- Biography and career
- Awards and honors
- Quotes
- References
Philosophy evil susan neiman
Biography and career
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Neiman dropped out of high school to join the anti-Vietnam War movement. Later she studied philosophy at Harvard University, earning her Ph.D. under the direction of John Rawls and Stanley Cavell. During graduate school, she spent several years of study at the Free University of Berlin. Slow Fire, a memoir about her life as a Jewish woman in 1980s Berlin, appeared in 1992. From 1989 to 1996 she taught philosophy at Yale University, and from 1996 to 2000 she was an associate professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University. In 2000 she assumed her current position at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. She is the mother of three grown children.
Neiman has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, a Research Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, and a Senior Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. She is now a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Her books have won prizes from PEN, the Association of American Publishers, and the American Academy of Religion. Her shorter pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, and Dissent. In Germany, she has written for Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Freitag, among other publications. Neiman is among a handful of prominent female philosophers in a field overwhelmingly dominated by men, and was the only woman invited to write for Penguin's Philosophy in Transit series of books.
Awards and honors
In 2014 Neiman was the recipient of the International Spinoza Prize and an honorary doctorate from the University of Sankt Gallen. She delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of Michigan in 2010.
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