ISBN:
9780374184469
,
0374184461
Language:
English
Pages:
415 Seiten
Edition:
First edition
Year of publication:
2019
Keywords:
Collective memory / Germany
;
World War, 1939-1945 / Atrocities / Germany / Public opinion
;
National socialism / Public opinion
;
Denazification / Germany
;
African Americans / Crimes against / Public opinion
;
Racism / United States / Public opinion
;
Civil rights movements / United States / History
;
Collective memory / United States
;
Public opinion / United States
;
Public opinion / Germany
;
Nationalsozialismus
;
Rassismus
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
;
Sklaverei
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
USA
;
Deutschland
;
USA Südstaaten
;
Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung
;
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
;
USA
;
Deutschland
;
Rassismus
;
Nationalsozialismus
;
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Deutschland
;
Nationalsozialismus
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
USA Südstaaten
;
Sklaverei
;
Rassismus
;
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Abstract:
"As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past."--Provided by publisher
Description / Table of Contents:
German lessons -- On the use and abuse of historical comparison -- Sins of the fathers -- Cold War memory -- Southern discomfort -- Everybody knows about Mississippi -- Lost causes -- Faces of Emmett Till -- Setting things straight -- Monumental recognition -- Rights and reparations -- In place of conclusions
