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 greece.
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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