Article: THREE WOMEN IN DARK TIMES: EDITH STEIN, HANNAH ARENDT, SIMONE WEIL.(Review)

THREE WOMEN IN DARK TIMES: EDITH STEIN, HANNAH ARENDT, SIMONE WEIL. By Sylvie Courtine-Denamy. Translated from the French by G. M. Goshgarian. Ithaca: Cornell University, 2000. Pp. xi + 272. $32.50.

Bertolt Brecht begins his poem "To Posterity" with the line, "Indeed I live in dark times," an appeal to readers to remember in what a troubled and complicated age he lived (Selected Poems, 1947). After Brecht's death, Hannah Arendt included an essay on him in a new edition of Men in Dark Times (1967). Now Sylvie Courtine-Denamy has presented us with a fascinating and powerful account of three notable women whose lives--and in two cases whose deaths--intersected with ...






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