Three women in dark times

Description

"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 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."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Edith Stein was born in 1891 in Breslau, in the province of Silesia.

Excerpt

Edith Stein was born in 1891 in Breslau, in the province of Silesia.

Subjects

Genres

• Biography

Other Editions

• Three women in dark times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, or, Amor fati, amor mundiCornell University Press2000-01-01
• Three Women in Dark TimesHardcoverCornell University Press2000-11-01
• Three Women in Dark TimesPaperbackCornell University Press2001-08-01