Susan Neiman

Susan Neiman ( born March 27, 1955 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American philosopher.

After her involvement in the American anti - Vietnam war movement and the study of philosophy at Harvard ( student of John Rawls and Stanley Cavell ), where she graduated with a PhD in 1986, Neiman had a longer stay in Germany at the Free University of Berlin. She was a professor at Yale University 1989-96 and the University of Tel Aviv from 1996 to 2000 and is now director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Her main areas of research are moral philosophy, political philosophy and philosophy of history. Neiman is a member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

Susan Neiman is married to the Viennese psychoanalyst Felix de Mendelssohn.

Selected books

  • Moral Clarity Moral clarity. Guide for adult idealists, Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86854-223-3

Selected items

  • The ability to hope., In Monday July 25, 2008
  • Moral clarity in Die_Presse from 1 August 2009
  • My earthquake, the world 31 August, 2011
  • Europe / The Outside / Enlightenment, in: Robertson -von Trotha, Caroline Y. (ed.): Europe: Insights from the Outside ( = cultural studies interdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol 5 ), Baden -Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-5583-0
  • " Obama needs the pressure of the left ," the daily newspaper, September 22 2012
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