Left Is Not Woke

by Susan Neiman

If 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.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509558306
• ISBN13: 9781509558308
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.6"