TEHRAN-- American philosopher Susan Neimans 2019 publication Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil will be examined on Tuesday during a meeting at the Book City Institute in Tehran.Mohammad-Mostafa Bayat, the translator of the Persian edition of the book, and Amir Saemi, a viewpoint scholar from the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, will go to the conference, which will begin at 3 pm.The session will likewise be screened live on the Telegram channel @bookcitycc and www.instagram.com/ketabofarhang.The book has just recently been published by the Tehran-based company Borj.As an increasingly polarized America battles over the legacy of racism, Neiman, author of the modern philosophical traditional Evil in Modern Thought , asks what we can learn from the Germans about facing the evils of the past.In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing dispute over reparations, and the debate surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they stimulate, Neimans Learning from the Germans provides an urgently needed point of view on how a country can concern terms with its historic wrongdoings.

Neiman is a white lady who matured in the civil rights-- period South and a Jewish female who has actually spent much of her adult life in Berlin.

Working from this unique viewpoint, she combines philosophical reflection, individual stories, and interviews with both Americans and Germans who are facing the evils of their own national histories.Through conversations with Germans, including Jan Philipp Reemtsma, who produced the breakthrough Crimes of the Wehrmacht exhibit, and Friedrich Schorlemmer, the East German dissident preacher, Neiman informs the story of the long and difficult path Germans faced in their effort to atone for the criminal offenses of the Holocaust.

In the United States, she interviews James Meredith about his fight for equality in Mississippi and Bryan Stevenson about his monument to the victims of lynching, as well as lesser-known social justice activists in the South, to supply a compelling picture of the work modern Americans are doing to challenge their violent history.

In clear and gripping prose, Neiman advises us to think about the nuanced kinds that evil can assume, so that we can acknowledge and avoid them in the future.Photo: A poster for the Book City Institutes evaluation of Susan Neimans book Learning from the Germans .

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