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Title: Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil by Sylvie Courtine-Denamy, G. M. Goshgarian ISBN: 0-8014-8758-7 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A good intro to these ladies and their times
Comment: This is not an easy book. It is a glance into the lives of 3 women, Hanna Arendt, Simone Weil, and Edith Stein, each of Jewish descent and, in particular, at the response each one made to Nazism. There is a review of each woman's life and her career. A lot of space is given to the education of these women, which is especially interesting since each studied under some of the biggest names in philosophy in the 20th century. It is not easy to follow, however, unless you have some basic knowledge of Heidegger, Jaspers, Alain, Husserl. But it is still interesting. Each of these women chose a different response (not just to nazism, but to the world, actually). Arendt became strongly Zionist, and an author of wonderful books; Simone Weil, strangely at odds with her heritage, but whose essays are marvels of clarity, chose a strange path of starvation (whatever the philosophical underpinnings, one wonders about anorexia); Edith Stein converted to Catholicism and became a Carmelite nun, devoting her life to prayer (though still writing). Each of these responses is fascinating in its own right. I highly recommend this difficult, but rewarding book.
Rating: 3
Summary: disappointing story of three remarkable women
Comment: I am no philosopher, but have read the works of the three women who are the subjects of the book.
I was hoping to put the three lives into the context of the intellectual and social world they lived in, and how and why they made their individual decisions on philosophy, religion, and their approach to the questions posed by both Nazism and the feminist movement.
But little detail is given about the intellectual life. We are told the names of their mentors: but not any details of what these mentors taught (a major flaw for the non philosophy student who is not familiar with Heddiger etc.).
At the same time, except for some fine passages on Simone Weil, there is little detail on the inner lives of the women: we see only the outline of their parallel lives, often mixed together in a confusing manner. Arendt's affair with her professor, a subject recently treated in detail in a recent Atlantic magazine article, is given one sentence. Stein converts, with no more detail on her inner life than one could read in a blurb in the Catholic encyclopedia.
In summary, the author fails to provide details for the novice to understand the lives of these women, but does not go into sufficient depth for a philosophy student to learn anything new.
However, the passages on Simone Weil are an exception to my criticism. I did learn a lot about both her writings and why she thought and wrote her famous letters.
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Title: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind (Routledge Classics) by Simone Weil, Arthur Wills, T. S. Eliot ISBN: 0415271029 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 09 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Hidden Life: Hagiographic Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Texts (Collected Works of Edith Stein, Vol 4) by Edith Stein, M. Linssen, W. Stein, Lucy Gelber ISBN: 0935216170 Publisher: Ics Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Love and Saint Augustine by Hannah Arendt, Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Judith Chelius Stark ISBN: 0226025977 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Waiting for God by Simone Weil ISBN: 0060959703 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Letter to a Priest by Simone Weil ISBN: 0142002674 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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