Research Catalog

Title

Philosophia : the thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Simone Weil, and Hannah Arendt / Andrea Nye.

Author

Nye, Andrea, 1939-

Publication

New York : Routledge, 1994.

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Details

Description

xxi, 280 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This book brings together the work of three major women thinkers of this century: Rosa Luxemburg, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt. The book explores the continuities and developments of their views on justice, knowledge, the self, divinity, and the way philosophical problems have been framed in the mainstream masculine tradition. Andrea Nye explains the the link between these women is not that they express the same ideas or even that they have a common feminine style, but that each keeps her philosophical theorizing in constant contact with experienced reality. Thinking always about and through the catastrophic changing events of the twentieth century, they produced a developing and deepening commentary on the human condition that Nye suggests might be a better resource than traditional philosophy for those struggling against sexism, racism and injustice.

Subject

• Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
• Weil, Simone, 1909-1943
• Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
• Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975
• Luxemburg, Rosa 1871-1919
• Weil, Simone 1909-1943
• Luxemburg, Rosa
• Weil, Simone
• Arendt, Hannah
• Women philosophers
• philosophers
• Philosophie
• Politische Philosophie
• Politieke filosofie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-276) and index.

Contents

Rosa Luxemburg. An intractable comrade -- Simone Weil. Suffering the world -- Hannah Arendt. Between past and future -- Conclusion : a tradition of women's thought.

ISBN

• 0415908302
• 9780415908306
• 0415908310
• 9780415908313

LCCN

93010223

OCLC

• ocm27814812
• 27814812
• SCSB-9440926

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library