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Three Women in Dark Times

Three Women in Dark Times Paperback - 2001

by Courtine-Denamy, Sylvie

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  • Title Three Women in Dark Times
  • Author Courtine-Denamy, Sylvie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press
  • Date 2001-08-07
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR006716313
  • ISBN 9780801487583 / 0801487587
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.1 x 0.68 in (22.81 x 15.49 x 1.73 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects Stein, Edith, Weil, Simone
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00010475
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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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 Weil, a student of Alain and author of La pesanteur et la grce.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. Condemned to exile, they not only sought to understand a horrible reality, but also attempted to make peace with it. To do so, Edith Stein and Simone Weil encouraged a stoic acceptance of necessity while Hannah Arendt argued for the capacity for renewal and the need to fight against the banality of evil.Courtine-Denamy also describes how as a student each woman caught the eye of her famous male teacher, yet dared to criticize and go beyond him. She explores each one's sense of her femininity, her position on the "woman question," and her relation to her Jewishness. "All three," the author writes, "are compelling figures who move us with their fierce desire to understand a world out of joint, reconcile it with itself, and, despite everything, love it."

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

About the author

Sylvie Courtine-Denamy is a French philosopher and author of Hannah Arendt. G. M. Goshgarian is the translator of several books from Cornell, including The Jew and the Other and The Aesthetic Relation.

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