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 We.
Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book