Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil
by Sylvie Courtine-Denamy
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"Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book. The dark years when the Nazis rose to power are here seen through the lives of Edith Stein, a disciple of Husserl and author of La science et la croix, who died in Auschwitz in 1942; Hannah Arendt, pupil of Heidegger and Jaspers and author of Eichmann in Jerusalem, who unhesitatingly responded to Hitler by making a personal commitment to Zionism; and Simone show more Weil, a student of Alain and author of La pesanteur et la grace." "Following her subjects from 1933 to 1943, Sylvie Courtine-Denamy recounts how these three great philosophers of the twentieth century endeavored with profound moral commitment to address the issues confronting them."--Jacket. show lessTags
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Sylvie Courtine-Denamy is Associate Researcher at the Centre des Religions du Livre, at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
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- Edith Stein; Hannah Arendt; Simone Weil
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- Nonfiction, Philosophy, Biography & Memoir, History, Religion & Spirituality, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 181.06 — Philosophy and Psychology Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy Eastern philosophy -- Judaism
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- B3332 .S674 .C6813 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Philosophy (General) By period Modern By region or country
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