“WHAT WOULD YOUR GOOD do if evil did not exist?” asks the Devil in Mikhail Bulgakov’ Faustian satire . For Wolfram Eilenberger, the light of intellect shines against the presence of evil in his genre-defying book The Visionaries. Neither biography, history nor fiction, Eilenberger’s work interweaves into a “constellation” the fates of four questing female figures (three of them Jewish): Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil in the decade after Hitler’s rise to power.
Four women seers in a time of strife
Jan 25, 2024
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