Understanding Heroes

Immediately preceeding the event at King's Manor there will be a drinks reception at King's Manor Huntingdon Ante-Room.

Professor Neiman is the director of the Einstein Forum, an international interdisciplinary institute for public intellectual life in Berlin-Potsdam. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Neiman studied philosophy at Harvard and at the Freie Universität in Berlin, before teaching philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv Universities. She is the author of Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin (1992), The Unity of Reason: Rereading Kant (1994), the award-winning Evil in Modern Thought (2002), and Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists (2008). In the Tanner Lectures on Human Values (http://tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/documents/Neiman_10.pdf), Professor Neiman explores the theme of 'Victims and Heroes', defending the 'possibility of heroism' and arguing that "The fact that concepts are abused cannot absolve us of the responsibility to try to use them properly: reinvesting them with meaning, by carefully showing how they might make sense."

The event is hosted by the Department of Philosophy with the Royal Institute of Philosophy.