Three Women in Dark Times – Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil Paperback

Three Women in Dark TimesEdith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil\nAuthor(s): Sylvie Courtine-Denamy, Geoffrey M. Goshgarian\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801487583, 978-0801487583\nSynopsis\nThree 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.\n\n Following her subjects from 1933 to 1943, Sylvie Courtine-Denamy recounts how these three great philosophers of the twentieth century endeavored with profoun""