The ethics and religious philosophy of Etty Hillesum : proceedings of the Etty Hillesum Conference at Ghent University, January 2014 /
"The Ethics and Religious Philosophy of Etty Hillesum contains the proceedings of the second international Etty Hillesum Congress at Ghent University in January 2014 and is a joint effort by fifteen Hillesum experts to shed new light on the life, works and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty...
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Series: | Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ;
v. 28. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction; Perspectives of Research on Etty Hillesum's Writings; Part 1. Ethics and Religious Philosophy. Etty Hillesum's Ethical Consciousness and the History of Jewish Philosophy; Dimensions of Mystical Experience in the Thinking and Behavior of Etty Hillesum; The Journey of Etty Hillesum from Eros to Agape; Etty Hillesum as Moral-Theological Guide: From Fear to Love's Givenness and At-Riskness; The Carnivalesque in the Writing and Spirituality of Etty Hillesum.
- Part 2. Kindred Spirits. Spinoza and Etty Hillesum: Two Different Views of God; The Courage to Write: Biography and Religion in Etty Hillesum and Søren Kierkegaard; Etty Hillesum and Primo Levi among the Drowned and the Saved: Experiences of Inner Freedom; Etty Hillesum and Sophie Scholl: Sisters in Fate; The Phantom of God in the (Auto- )Biographical Writings of Hélène Cixous and Etty Hillesum; Chipping Away the Ice that Surrounds the Soul: Etty Hillesum and Dorothee Sölle; Part 3 Persecution as an Ethical Challenge; Etty Hillesum's Reaction to the Persecution of Her People.
- Etty Hillesum's Views on the Nazis and Their Henchmen; Part 4. Sources of Inspiration. The Influence of the Work of Rainer Maria Rilke on the Mind and Heart of Etty Hillesum; Newly Discovered Sources of Etty Hillesum; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Textual References.
