Susan Neiman is one of the most distinguished scholars writing today. She is a moral philosopher committed to making the tools of her trade relevant to real life. In "Moral Clarity", she shows how the resources of the eighteenth century Enlightenment can help us to reconstruct a progressive politics that does not repeat the mistakes of Marxism or succumb to the appeal of unreason. Against a background of books that have sought to call a halt to the very idea of the left, Neiman argues for a commitment to a more just world that is rationally grounded, implacable and insatiable. In her commitment to reason and the facts of the world, in her brilliant readings of the Western canon, and above all in her fierce commitment to politics as a moral endeavour, Neiman makes it possible to believe that the Enlightenment is not yet exhausted and that we are free to join it if we wish.
Moral Clarity - A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
Susan Neiman
Princeton University Press
2009
480 páginas
16h 0m
ISBN-13: 9780691143897
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Susan Neiman
Ensaísta e filósofa americana, especializada em filosofia da moral, metafísica e filosofia da religião. Já escreveu dezenas de ensaios para público leigo e acadêmico. Estudou filosofia na Universidade de Harvard e na Freie Universität de Berlim e foi Professora Associada de Filosofia na Universidade de Yale e na Universidade de Tel Aviv. É membro da Academia de Ciências de Berlim-Brandemburgo. É ainda autora de obras como The Unity of Reason Rereading Kant e Slow Fire Jewish Notes from Berlin. Vive atualmente na Alemanha, onde é a diretora do Einstein Forum em Potsdam.
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