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Professor Susan Neiman
Director Einstein Forum Am Neuen Markt 7 14467 Potsdam |
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Edited Books:
Selected Articles and Book Chapters: "Europe/Enlightenment", in Robertson-von Trotha, ed., Europe: Insights from the Outside, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 2011 "Moralische Klarheit", in Julian Nida-Rümelin, ed., Moralische Klarheit für erwachsene Idealisten, Klartext Verlag, Essen, 2011 "Seeking Heroes"; Tans Lecture, Maastricht University Press, Maastricht, 2010 "Crimes and Misfortunes: Does Bayle's Vision of History Have a Future?" Pierre Bayle Stichting, 2010 "Die (Ohn)Macht der Kunst" Jelinek Jahrbuch, 2010 "Wenn Odysseus ein Held sein soll..." in Bohrer und Scheer, hrsg., Heldengedenken: über das heroische Phantasma, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 2009 "Banality Reconsidered" in Ben Habib, ed., Politics in Dark Times, Cambridge University Press, 2010 "Kein Mangel!" in Schmidinger und Sedmak, hrsg., Der Mensch: ein Mängelwesen? Endlichkeit - Kompensation - Entwicklung, Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2008 Schimpfwort Moral, Philosophische Salons, Frankfurter Dialoge V, Elisabeth Schweeger, hrsg., Schauspielfrankfurt, 2008 "Subversive Einstein," in Galison, Holton and Schweber, eds., Einstein for the 21st Century, Princeton University Press, 2008 "Amerikanische Träume," in Honneth, Kemper und Klein, hrsg., Bob Dylan, Suhrkamp, 2007 "Zur Zukunft der Geisteswissenschaften," in Kodalle, hrsg., Geisteswissenschaften: im Gegenwind des Zeitgeistes?, Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaft und der Literatur, 2007 "Das Banale Verstehen," in Holster, hrsg., Das Böse neu denken: Hannah Arendt Lectures, Weltbrück Wissenschaft, 2006 "In het Zicht van de Galg," Helden en Het Kwaad, Damon, 2006 "What Natural Evils?" in Buescu e Duarte, eds., 1755: Catastrofe, Memoria e Arte, 2006" The Problem of Evil", Borchert, ed., The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, second edition, Macmillan, 2005 "Roads to Hell", Cicovacki, ed., Destined for Evil?, University of Rochester Press, 2005 "Über das vermeintliche Recht auf Glück", in Kross und Neiman, hrsg., Zum Glück, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2004 "Een geschiednis van het kwaad", Filosofiemagazine, 2004 "Meaning and Metaphysics", Schneewind, ed., Teaching New Histories of Philosophy, Princeton University Center for Human Values, 2004 "¿Qué es la Ilustración?", Revista de Occidente, N. 282, Nov. 2004 "Altes und neues Europa", in Sprache im technischen Zeitalter, Nr. 170, 2004 "Rawls", Die Philosophin, Nr. 27, 2003 Terreur: "Après 11 Septembre", in A Chacun son 11 Septembre, Dossier de l'audiovisuel, 2002"Undeniable Evil", New England Review, Fall 2002 "Modern Evil", Lara, ed., Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Approaches, University of California Press, 2001 (revised and published in Dutch as "Modern Kvaad", Nexus, 2002) "Theodicy in Jerusalem", Aschheim, ed., Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem, University of California Press, 2001 "Without Foundation", Thompson, ed., Instilling Ethics, Rowland and Littlefield, 2001 "Sure Path of a Science: Kant in the Analytic Tradition," Floyd and Shieh, eds., Future Pasts: Reflections on the History and Nature of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2001 "How not to Hegelianize the third Critique", Proceedings of the Ninth International Kant Congress, 2001 "Religion und Moral aus der Sicht des Judentums", Gestrich, ed., Moral und Weltreligionen, Berliner Theologische Zeitschrift, 2000 "On Hermann Cohen", Lorbeerbaum and Walzer, eds., The Jewish Political Tradition, Yale University Press, 2000 "Mit der Weisheit liebäugeln", Honneth, ed., Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 1999 "Auf der Suche nach Aufklärung", Cognitio Humana: Dynamik des Wissens und der Werte, Akademie Verlag, 1997 "Metaphysics, Philosophy: Rousseau on the Problem of Evil", Herman, Korsgaard and Reath, eds., Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays in Honor of John Rawls, Cambridge University Press, 1997
"Jean Améry", Gilman and Zipes, eds., The Yale Handbook of Jewish Writing in Germany, Yale University Press, 1997
"The Rawls Legacy", Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, Memphis 1995
"Understanding the Unconditioned", Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, Memphis 1995, Marquette University Press, 1995 "In Defense of Ambiguity", Gilman and Remmler, eds., Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany, New York University Press, 1994
Tacheles Reden, Neue Gesellschaft für Literatur, 1988
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Selected Newspaper and Magazine Articles:
"Is Morality Driven by Faith?", The Washington Post/Newsweek 2008 "The Critique of Pure Reason", Toronto Globe and Mail, 2008 "Change Germans Can't Believe In", The New York Times, 2008 "Obama in Berlin: Finding the Right Tone", Huffington Post, 2008 "Across the Great Divide", Huffington Post, 2008 "How to Win a Culture War", Huffington Post, 2008 "The Feminist Candidate", Huffington Post, 2008 "It's the metaphysics, stupid", The Boston Globe, 2008 "To Resist Hitler and Survive", by Susan Neiman, The New York Times, 2008 "Über Helden", Cicero, 2005 "The Moral Cataclysm", New York Times Magazine, 2005 "Rechts und fromm: Rätselhaftes Amerika", Die Zeit, 2004 "Was heißt Aufklärung? Zwischen Afghanistan und Arkansas", Die Zeit, 2004 "Das Böse braucht keine bösen Absichten", Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger, 2004 "Danke, Schröder!", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2004 "Das Leben ist kein süßer Dämmerzustand", Der Tagesspiegel, 2004 "Boycott und Verzweiflung", Die Zeit, 2003 "Eine Frage der Moral", Der Tagesspiegel, 2003 "Germany Remembers the Sixties", Dissent, 2001 "Mit amerikanischen Augen", Die Welt, 2001 |
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Selected Lectures and Conference Papers:
"Job, God, and the Problem of Evil", Hardigg Annual Lecture, Dartmouth College, 2011 "On Fear, Shame and Pride", Conference: Pride Between Arrogance and Self-respect, Einstein Forum, 2011 "Was ist Moralische Klarheit?", Internationales Zentrum für Kultur-und Technikforschung, Universität Stuttgart, 2010 Philosophie und Politik, SPD Annual Forum, Berlin, 2010 "Moralische Klarheit", Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach, 2010 "Moralische Klarheit", Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Heidelberg, 2010 "In Need of Moral Language", University of Groningen, 2010 "Seeking Heroes", Tans Lecture, University of Maastricht, 2010 "Die Entdeckung des Menschen - Möglichkeit einer neuen demokratischen Kultur?", Österreiches Parlament, Wien, 2010 "Zwischen Geisteswissenschaften und Humanities: was nützen uns Philosophen?", Conference: Zur Parteilichkeit der Wissenschaft, Einstein Forum, 2010 "Challenging Evil," Keynote Lecture, Conference on Religion, Literature and the Arts, University of Iowa, 2010 "Victims and Heroes", The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, University of Michigan, 2010 "Progressive Politics and Morality", D66 Kenniscentrum, Amsterdam, 2009 The Pierre Bayle Lecture, Rotterdam ,2009 " Op zoek naar waarheid in de 21e eeuw", De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam, 2009 "Setting Aside Facts: Rousseau vs. Darwin", Conference: Understanding Moral Sentiments from a Darwinian Perspective, Harvard University, 2009 "War against Terror. Art against War. – Der Irakkrieg in der Kunst" Diskussion, Kunsthalle Wien, 2009 "The Good Society: Virtues for a Post-Recession World" Keynote Discussion, Battle of Ideas, London, 2009 "Deutschlandbilder - Innen und Außenansichten" Internationale Demokratiekonferenz Leipzig, Demokratie im 21.Jahrhundert - Bilanz und Perspektive, 2009 "Against Resignation: the Seduction of Pessimism", The Sentience Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, 2009 "Making Progress: Rethinking Enlightenment" The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), London, 2009 "What Makes Heroes?", London School of Economics, 2009 ""Odysseus as Hero?!", Conference: Verdammte Helden: Heroism Reconsidered, Einstein Forum, 2009 "21st Century Enlightenment" How the Light Gets In. A Philosophy Festival at Hay-on-Wye, England, 2009 "Idealism and Evil: The Last Eight Years", Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, 2009 "The dream lives on - Wird der Traum jetzt Wirklichkeit?", Evangelische Akademie Sachsen-Anhalt, Wittenberg, 2009 "Confronting Injustice", Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 2009 "Susan Neiman - Moral Clarity", Felix Meritis, European centre for arts, culture and science, Amsterdam, 2009 "Denkcafe: Morele Helderheid met Neiman", Arminius, Podium voor Kunst, Cultuur en Debat, Rotterdam, 2009 "What About Evil?", Oakley Center for the Humanities, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2008 "How to Win a Culture War," New York Institute for the Humanities, 2008 "Race and Religion in the Presidential Election", Cornel West and Susan Neiman, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, 2008 "The Role of Philosophy in Modern Politics," The Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C., 2008 "Warum sind unsere Träume so schlecht?" Festvortrag, Die Junge Akademie, Berlin, 2008 "Aufklärung als Gegenwart", Konferenz: Vielfalt der Moderne-Ansichten der Moderne, Gesprächskreis des Bundespräsidenten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Schloss Bellevue, 2008 " Moral Clarity: Which Values Do We Share? " Women's National Republican Club, New York, 2008 " The Interpretive View of Ethics, " discussed at Justice, Culture and Tradition: Conference in Honor of Michael Walzer, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 2008 " Moral Clarity: Realism and Idealism in the 21st Century, " 100th Anniversary Gala Speech, Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, New York,2008 " Sodom and Gomorrah: The Case for Moral Clarity, " Harvard Hillel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008 " Achieving Moral Clarity: Reflections for Grown-up Idealists, " Robert Cover Memorial Lecture, Yale Law School, New Haven,Connecticut, 2008 " Laudatio auf Jan Philipp Reemtsma, " Johannes Gutenberg-Stiftung, Mainz, 2008 "Enlightenment at Home: An American Look at Europe," Karlsruher Gespräche, Karlsruhe, 2008 "Warum werden Pessimisten geliebt?" Das Offene denken- Begriffe des Nomadischen, Philosophische Nachtakademie, Münchner Kammerspiele, München, 2008 "Herausforderungen der amerikanischen Demokratie," Eröffnungsvortrag der Jahrestagung der Grünen Akademie, Berlin, 2008 "Rot tragen," Eröffnungsvortrag: Frauen in den Geisteswissenschaften, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Berlin, 2007 "Reclaiming Reason: On Stanley Cavell's The Claim of Reason", Einstein Forum, 2006 "With Eichmann in Jerusalem," Hannah Arendt Right Now, New York Institute for the Humanities, 2006 "Ethics without Religion," Beyond Belief, Salk Institute, La Jolla, 2006 "Judgment and Evil," Crises of Our Republics: Hannah Arendt 100 Years Later, Yale University, 2006 "Natural and Unnatural Evils," Wiener Library/Leo Baeck Institute, London, 2006 "Heroes or Losers?", Conference: Victims and Losers, Einstein Forum, 2006 "Natural Evils? From Lisbon to New Orleans," 2006 Berry Lecture in Ethics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 2006 "On Envy", Conference: Evil Eyes, Einstein Forum, 2006 "What Natural Evils? Lessons of Lisbon", Keynote Lecture, Conference: O Grande Terramoto de Lisboa: Ficar Diferente, Universidade de Lisboa, 2005 "Die Beste aller Welten?", Hannah-Arendt-Tage, Hannover, 2005 "Moral Clarity", Simone Weil Annual Lecture in Moral Value, Australian Catholic University, Sidney and Melbourne, 2005 "On Comparing Nazism and Communism", Conference: Open Wounds, Einstein Forum, 2005 "Before the Gallows", The Thomas More Annual Lecture, Amsterdam, 2005 "60 Jahren Nach dem Potsdamer Abkommen", Conference: Paradigm Potsdam: Vorbild für Demokratie?, Einstein Forum, 2005 "Responses" at Conference: On Evil in Moderne Thought, University of Texas, Austin, 2005 "Philosophical Questions", A Conference on Evil: Dialogue Among Psychoanalysts, Philosophers, and Theologians, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health, New York, 2005 "Fundamentalism in Europe and America: Notes After Terror", Singelkierk, Amsterdam, 2004 "Brauchen wir eine neue Aufklärung?", Festansprache auf dem Bundeskongress des Freien Deutschen Autorenverbandes, Hotel Kaiserin Augusta, Weimar, 2004 "Terror und Folter", Dialogue with Wolfgang Thierse, Pesident of the German Parliament, Katholische Akademie in Berlin, 2004 "Evil After Kant", Humanities Without Boundaries lectures, The Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004 "The Liberal Education: Dead or Alive?", Dartmouth Conference, The Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2004 "Terrorism and Moral Judgment", Conference: Terrorism, International Law and the Bounds of Democracy, 2Einstein Forum, 2004 "Whose Banality? Arendt, Kant, and Radical Evil", Boston University, 2004 "Gibt es das Böse?", Schiffbauvorträge, Schauspielhaus Zürich, 2004 "Kant heute", University of Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2004 "Streitfall - Autoren in der Kontroverse". Neue Bücher von Paul Berman, Susan Neiman und Edward W. Said; Podiumsdiskussion, Literaturhaus Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, 2004 "Vom Neuen und vom alten Europa", Lesung und Podiumsdiskussion, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin auf der Leipziger Buchmesse, 2004 "Stilfragen in der Philosophie", Conference: Ganz anders: Die Sprache der Philosophie, Einstein Forum, 2004 "Jews in Germany 60 Years After the Holocaust", Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, McMaster University, Canada, 2003 "Subversion and Social Justice: Einstein and the Limits of the Law", The Humanities Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, 2003 "Zur Zukunft der deutschen Philosophie", Einstein Forum, 2003 "Remembering Rawls", Einstein Forum, 2003 "Lessons from Germany", Conference: The New Patriotism, Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, 2003 "The Nature of Good and Evil", Conference: The Return to Morality in International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, 2003 "Redefining Evil in the New Century", Harvard Center for European Studies Dialogues, 2003 "Universality and the Future in Kant and Marx", Conference: Retours a Marx: une autre mondialisation?, College International de Philosophie, Paris, 2003 "Universal Evil and the Modes of Victimhood,"Conference: Confusions: Questioning Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism and Other Modes of Conspiracy, New York University, 2002 "Literatur und Moral", Conference: Moral Sense, Literary Sensibility, Einstein Forum, 2002 "Sartres Drama Der Teufel und der Liebe Gott", Workshop: Der Lauf des Bösen, Sartre Gesellschaft Berlin, 2002
"Modern Evils,"University of Copenhagen, 2002
"Zur Zukunft der analytischen Philosophie", Einstein Forum, 2002 "The Book of Job and the Problem of Evil," Conference: The Quest for Life: Evil, Nexus Institute, The Netherlands, 2002 "Roads to Hell," Conference: The Anatomy of Evil, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, 2002 "Aufklärung nach dem 11. September", Conference: Wozu noch Aufklärung?, Einstein Forum, 2001 "Was ist von 1968 geblieben?", Katholische Akademie in Bayern, Munich 2001 "Political Theory, Historical Traditions", Conference: Jewish Political Theory, Einstein Forum, 2001 "Introducing Améry", Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem 2000 "Does Evil Have History?" Conference: Myths of Good and Evil, Mishkenot Sheanim, Jerusalem 2000 "At Stake in Enlightenment", Conference: Enlightenment and Counterenlightenment, Tel Aviv University, 2000 "Religion und Moral aus der Sicht des Judentums", 8. Werner Reihe Vorlesung, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 1999 "Why History? Why Memory?", Conference: History, Memory and Myth, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem 1999 "Afraid of the Dark", Conference: Rousseau, Tel Aviv University, 1999 "Es muss ja nicht alles einen Sinn haben", Conference: Literature After Auschwitz, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, 1999 "What's the Problem with Evil?", Conference on Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Prague 1999 "A Plea for Divisions", Conference: The Analytic/Continental Divide, Tel Aviv University, 1999 "Determining the Rest", Conference: Handlungsspielräume: Dimensionen der Selbstbestimmung, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Nordrhein-Westfalen, Essen, 1998 "Crises of Experience", Conference: Critical Theory in Contexts, Tel Aviv University, 1998 "Content and Enlightenment," Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1997 "Umwertung und Lebensführung", XVII Allgemeiner Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Leipzig 1996 "Kant and the Structure of Practical Reason", Eleventh Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter, Jerusalem 1995 "On The Unity of Reason", North American Kant Society Symposium, APA Central Division Meetings, Chicago, 1995 "On the Necessity and Impossibility of German Jewish Culture", University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994 "Which Past?", Conference: Toleranz in Deutschland, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1994 "Political Sources of Kant's Moral Philosophy", Ethics Colloquium, New York University, 1994
"Slow Fire: A Discussion", Kroner/Friedlander Lecture, Yale University, 1992
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Member, Board of Advisers, Goethe-Institut Member, Advisory Committee, The Insitute of Art and Ideas, London Member, International Board of Advisers, Shaharit, Tel Aviv Member, Board of Advisors, Center for Public Theology, University of Western Ontario Member, Board of Directors, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London Member, International Advisory Board, Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin Member, Board of Trustees, Albert-Einstein-Institut (Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik), Potsdam Member, Council of Fellows, Goree Institute, Senegal Member, Board of Advisers, Eurozine, European Network of Cultural Journals Member, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
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Tanner Lecturer, University of Michigan, 2010 Margherita-von-Brentano-Preis der Freien Universität Berlin, 2010 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2006-07 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence (Evil in Modern Thought) 2003 American Association of Publishers Scholarly and Professional Award for Philosophy (Evil in Modern Thought) 2002 Research Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center at Bellagio, 2000 Senior Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 1999-2000 PEN-American Center Citation for a Distinguished First Work of Nonfiction (Slow Fire), 1993 Morse Fellowship, Yale University, 1992 Ribicoff Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, Yale University, 1991 Carrier Dissertation Prize, Harvard University, 1987 Heinrich Heine Stiftung für Philosophie und Kritische Wissenschaft Fellowship, 1984 Sheldon Travelling Fellowship, Harvard University, 1982 Fulbright Fellowship, 1982, 1983
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellowship, 1980
Bowen Prize, Harvard University, 1980
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