12 Facts About Susan Neiman

Susan Neiman is an American moral philosopher, cultural commentator and essayist.

Susan Neiman has written extensively on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics, both for scholarly audiences and the general public.

Susan Neiman has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, a Research Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, and a Senior Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Susan Neiman is currently a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Susan Neiman's books have won prizes from PEN, the Association of American Publishers, and the American Academy of Religion.

Indeed, Susan Neiman believes that evil, by challenging the intelligibility of the world as a whole, lies at the root of all philosophical inquiry.

In Moral Clarity, Susan Neiman argues that all human beings have moral needs but that secular culture, particularly on the political left, is reluctant or unable to satisfy them, and as a consequence has ceded the moral domain to religion and traditional conservatives.

Susan Neiman suggests that the "forces that shape our world" encourage consumerism, apathy, cynicism, and the fetishization of beauty and youth in order to keep citizens passive and compliant.

Susan Neiman makes the case for an ideal of adulthood that involves exercising judgement, understanding one's own culture through immersion in others, actively shaping society, and seeking orientation in the face of uncertainty.

Susan Neiman traces woke thinking back to Michel Foucault, Carl Schmitt, and the thinkers they influenced, though she finds similar views articulated by the character of Thrasymachus in Plato's Republic.

In 2014, Susan Neiman was the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of St Gallen.

Susan Neiman delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of Michigan in 2010.