Packet 10: Bonus 14

This thinker contrasted German and American responses to historic injustices in her 2019 book Learning from the Germans. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this moral philosopher who directs the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. This thinker traced the title concept from the Lisbon earthquake through Auschwitz in her book Evil in Modern Thought.
ANSWER: Susan Neiman
[10e] Neiman’s 2014 book Why Grow Up? cites a process of emerging from “self-incurred immaturity” from a Kant essay asking “What is” this concept.
ANSWER: enlightenment [or Aufklärung; accept Age of Enlightenment or the Enlightenment; accept “Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?” or “Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?”]
[10m] Neiman’s 2023 book Left Is Not Woke claims leftists have turned away from Enlightenment universalism in favor of a relativism borrowed from this fascist German thinker, who introduced the concepts of the friend-enemy distinction and the state of exception.
ANSWER: Carl Schmitt
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BrownSwarthmore0101020EM
BruinRutgers0101020EM
CambridgeUCLA010010E
Chicago ANorthwestern A0101020EM
Columbia BStanford B0000
GeorgetownIllinois B0101020EM
Georgia Tech BNYU B010010E
HarvardNYU A010010E
Illinois ATexas010010E
Johns HopkinsOhio State010010E
MITVanderbilt010010E
MichiganGeorgia Tech A0101020EM
Penn StateVirginia010010E
PittsburghMinnesota0101020EM
Stanford AColumbia A0101020EM
Toronto AMaryland A0101020EM
Toronto BBritish Columbia0000
UC Berkeley AVirginia Tech0101020EM
UC Berkeley BIndiana010010E
UCFChicago B0101020EM
WashUGeorgia Tech C0101020EM
WaterlooNorthwestern B0101020EM

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2214.5591%55%0%