Three women in dark times
Subtitle: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, or, Amor fati, amor mundi
By: Sylvie Courtine-Denamy ; translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Stein, Edith, -- Saint, -- 1891-1942; Arendt, Hannah, -- 1906-1975; Weil, Simone, -- 1909-1943; Women philosophers -- Europe -- Biography; Jewish philosophers -- Europe -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Work titles: Trois femmes dans de sombres temps.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index