{"product_id":"9781509564101","title":"Left Is Not Woke","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you're woke, you're left. If you're left, you're woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you're one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The confusion arises because woke is fuelled by traditionally leftwing emotions: the wish to stand with the oppressed and marginalized, to address historic crimes. But those emotions are undermined by widespread philosophical assumptions with reactionary sources. As a result, wokeism conflicts with ideas that have guided the left for more than 200 years: a commitment to universalism, a firm distinction between justice and power, and a belief in the possibility of progress. Without these ideas, the woke will continue to undermine their own goals and drift, inexorably and unintentionally, towards the right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the world's leading philosophical voices, Neiman calls with passion and power for the left to return to the ideals that built the best of the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Also available as an audiobook narrated by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49059295264995,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781509564101-1.jpg?v=1788391329","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781509564101","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}