Flame of Freedom. Light of Philosophy in Dark Times. 1933-1943
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Flame of Freedom. Light of Philosophy in Dark Times. 1933-1943
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1933. Hannah Arendt flees Berlin to join similar exiles without means or papers seeking refuge in Paris. Simone de Beauvoir seeks answers to the challenges of a violent world in Rouen. Ayn Rand is working in Hollywood exile on a novel that she believes will reignite the flame of freedom in her adopted homeland. Simone Weil, disillusioned by the outcome of the revolution in Russia, devotes all her thoughts and energies to the plight of the oppressed. Over the next decade, one of the darkest in European history, these four women, devoted to thought, will develop ideas that will sweep the globe and change the world in the second half of the century. Wolfram Eilenberger follows in the footsteps of her heroines from Leningrad to New York City and from Spain at the height of the Civil War to Nazi-occupied France to trace the twisting trajectories of their destinies. They confront the injustice, unfreedom, and incomprehensible violence of their times as women, refugees, activists, members of the Resistance, but above all as thinkers. As we follow the melting of their radical ideas in the merciless crucible of time, we are convinced with them of the redemptive power of thought.
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