Left Is Not Woke (eBook)

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2023 | 1. Auflage
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Left Is Not Woke -  Susan Neiman
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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. Also available as an audiobook narrated by the author.

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.

Introduction
1 Universalism and Tribalism
2 Justice and Power
3 Progress and Doom
4 What's Left?

Acknowledgments
Notes

"Susan Neiman's powerful new book calls out to everyone who hopes to advance the cause of justice for all. She envisages a progressive movement drawing from the full range of the human family, from people of all classes, ethnic backgrounds, and sexual identities. She urges them to renew the values articulated by Enlightenment thinkers: not to confine human beings by ancestry or biology, not to settle for merely replacing one oppressive regime of power by another, not to abandon the hope of genuine human progress. When those values are discarded, she argues, we acquiesce in important losses. In her characteristically lucid and accessible prose, she exhorts all of us to aspire to more."
Philip Kitcher, Columbia University

"Susan Neiman is one of our most careful and principled thinkers on the genuine left. In this nuanced and impassioned plea for universalism she has done a public service for readers of every political stripe. If an alliance of conservatives, liberals, and progressives is to succeed in fending off an increasingly undemocratic far right, lucid thinking is our only hope. Left Is Not Woke is an urgent and powerful intervention into one of the most pressing struggles of our time."
Thomas Chatterton Williams, Bard College, Contributing writer, The Atlantic

"In these bleak times, Susan Neiman's book arrives as a breath of fresh air. Calmly but fiercely defending the principles of universalism and progress that once defined the left, she gives us a counter to the narrow tribalism that threatens to derail progressive politics."
Vivek Chibber, New York University

"Philosophy, for Susan Neiman, is a martial art. Her sharp argument that woke is not left because left is universalist while woke is progressive-styled tribalism will stir a much-needed debate."
Ivan Krastev, Chair, Centre for Liberal Strategies

"Susan Neiman's provocative book is an impassioned defense against the corrosive particularisms that have eroded solidarity on the left. She argues that we must reclaim the kind of universalism that historically helped to forge diverse coalitions of activists in struggles for progress. To build a more just, equitable, and sustainable world, we need to acknowledge past victories, recognize the contingencies of our present, and embrace a radical politics of hope for our future."
Kristen Ghodsee, University of Pennsylvania

"[I]ncisive ... crucial to the future of the left."
Vancouver Sun

"Let no one confuse what this book has to say with the tired right-wing denunciation of 'identity politics.' The right-wing critique charges promoters of difference and multiculturalism with undermining the shared legacy of the national culture. It is a battle pitting one avowed particularism against another alleged particularism. Left Is Not Woke accuses some trendy voices of the left of a fatal self-betrayal: renouncing the very grounds on which the left has traditionally stood, the concepts and principles in the name of which it has fought its battles and advanced its ends, above all, universalism."
Ato Sekyi-Otu, Emeritus Professor of Social and Political Thought, York University and author of Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.3.2023
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Schlagworte Philosophie • Philosophy • Philosophy Special Topics • Political Issues & Behavior • Political Philosophy & Theory • Political Science • Politik • Politikwissenschaft • Politische Fragen u. politisches Verhalten • Politische Philosophie u. Politiktheorie • Spezialthemen Philosophie • woke
ISBN-10 1-5095-5831-4 / 1509558314
ISBN-13 978-1-5095-5831-5 / 9781509558315
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