Race and the Memory of Evil

愛因斯坦論壇主席、前耶魯大學哲學教授蘇珊．奈門走出學術圍牆，走入歷史記憶現場戰後德國、美國南方如何致力釐清過往？德國轉型正義的漫長道路，怎樣塑造了更寬容多元的社會？德國納粹屠殺猶太人、美國南方奴役黑人……這些發生在歷史上、父輩的罪惡，今日人們應當如何看待？釐清過往，面對歷史上的錯，何以能幫助我們走向未來？★中文版收錄2020年新版後記★臺灣民間真相與和解促進會理事長陳嘉銘專文導讀★亞馬遜書店4.6顆星評鑑、Goodreads書評4.3顆星評鑑愛因斯坦論壇主席、前耶魯大學哲學教授蘇珊．奈門，是一位在美國南方出生長大，長年居住在德國的猶太白人。她童年生活在60年代的美國南方，正是美國民權運動方興未艾，但種族隔離勢力也劇烈反撲的時代。成年後，80年代她居住在柏林，作為一位猶太人，體驗了冷戰尚未結束、德國人對戰爭的罪惡仍然非常敏感的時期。當兩德統一後成立的愛因斯坦論壇，邀請奈門擔任主席時，首先出現在奈門心頭的是身為一位母親的考慮：她會讓自己的三個猶太孩子，在前納粹德國的首都生活長大嗎？經過觀察與思考，奈門的答案是肯定的。80年代的柏林或許還不是一個外國人和猶太人能自在生活的地方。但是2000年時的柏林已經徹底轉變。她三個孩子能在當地安然成長，絲毫不感到畏縮。這轉變是如何發生的？多元文化、寬容的氣氛，如何成為當地的特質？這並不是由官方下一道命令，更不是一夕之間就能改變的。奈門身為研究「正義」的哲學家，想要瞭解面對過去、釐清過往，如何能幫助現在，為更好的未來鋪路。對這個問題，她決定不在書房中做抽象的哲學思辨，而是走出學院圍牆，實際在德國與美國南方進行了深度的訪談。通過與德國人的對談，奈門講述了德國人面對歷史真相，漫長而艱難的道路。在美國，她也採訪了許多不畏種族主義者挑釁，持續在南方進行教育、推動正義平權的社運人士。有人說，過去已經過去。然而釐清過往，不只是為了過去，而是為了創造一個人們能誠實參與自身歷史、真實活在當下的世界，更是為了未來不會再受到過去的不平等所支配。面對歷史上的傷，那是治癒終將開始的地方！「釐清德國不道德的過往並不是一項學術任務，這是更為私密之事。這意味著當面質問你的雙親與老師、指出其權威的腐敗之處。……我並非中立的觀察者，這個故事中也有我的身影。不過，我決定使用第一人稱寫作不是因為我相信歷史的主觀性無可改變，而是因為這是種指認出個人主張背後之責任並且承擔起責任

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 ab

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 ab

World War II is enshrined in our collective memory as the good war - a victory of good over evil. However, the bombing war has always troubled this narrative as total war transformed civilians into legitimate targets and raised unsettling questions such as whether it was possible for Allies and Axis alike to be victims of aggression. In Bombing the City, an unprecedented comparative history of how ordinary Britons and Japanese experienced bombing, Aaron William Moore offers a major new contribution to these debates. Utilising hundreds of diaries, letters, and memoirs, he recovers the voices of ordinary people on both sides - from builders, doctors and factory-workers to housewives, students and policemen - and reveals the shared experiences shaped by gender, class, race, and age. He reveals how it was that the British and Japanese public continued to support bombing elsewhere even as they experienced firsthand its terrible impact at home.

World War II is enshrined in our collective memory as the good war - a victory of good over evil. However, the bombing war has always troubled this narrative as total war transformed civilians into legitimate targets and raised unsettling questions such as whether it was possible for Allies and Axis alike to be victims of aggression. In Bombing the City, an unprecedented comparative history of how ordinary Britons and Japanese experienced bombing, Aaron William Moore offers a major new contribution to these debates. Utilising hundreds of diaries, letters, and memoirs, he recovers the voices of ordinary people on both sides - from builders, doctors and factory-workers to housewives, students and policemen - and reveals the shared experiences shaped by gender, class, race, and age. He reveals how it was that the British and Japanese public continued to support bombing elsewhere even as they experienced firsthand its terrible impact at home.