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What's left? - Eine Streitschrift für mehr Aufklärung und Universalismus im Kampf gegen rechts

Wer links ist, muss woke sein. Wer woke ist, zählt zu den Linken. Wer so denkt, so Susan Neiman, zieht einen fatalen Fehlschluss. Längst haben sich sogenannte linke Stimmen der Gegenwart von philosophischen Ideen verabschiedet, die den linken Standpunkt seit 200 Jahren leiten: ein Bekenntnis zum Universalismus, eine klare Unterscheidung zwischen Recht und Macht und der Glaube an die Möglichkeit des Fortschritts.

In ihrer eindringlichen Streitschrift zeigt die...

Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it.

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Our culture is obsessed with youth--and why not? What's the appeal of growing old, of gaining responsibilities and giving up on dreams, of steadily trading possibility for experience?

The philosopher Susan Neiman argues that the absence of appealing models of maturity is not an accident: by describing life as a downhill process, we prepare young people to expect--and demand--very little from it. In Why Grow Up?, she challenges our culture of permanent adolescence, turning to thinkers including Kant, Rousseau, and Arendt to find a model of maturity that is not a matter of...