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Author:   Klaas Smelik ,  Ria van den Brandt ,  Meins G. S. Coetsier
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   11
Weight:   1.036kg
ISBN:  

9789004188587

ISBN 10:   9004188584
Pages:   490
Publication Date:   25 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of contents 1. Introduction Dr. Ria van den Brandt 2. A Short Biography of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) Prof. Dr. Klaas A.D. Smelik Spirituality and God 3. The Roots of the Chaos and the Process of Change in Etty Hillesum Canon Patrick Woodhouse 4. Etty Hillesum and Julius Spier: A 'Spierituality' on the Fringe of Religious Borders Prof. Dr. Alexandra Pleshoyano 5. Etty Hillesum and her God Prof. Dr. Klaas A.D. Smelik 6. You-Consciousness - Towards Political Theory: Etty Hillesum's Experience and Symbolization of the Divine Presence Dr. Meins G.S. Coetsier 7. Foundations for a Judgment of the Holocaust: Etty Hillesum's Standard of Humanity Prof. Dr. Brendan Purcell 8. Etty Hillesum's Russian Vocation and Spiritual Relationship to Dostoevsky Prof. Dr. Wil van den Bercken 9. Etty Hillesum, an 'Atypical' Mystic Prof. Dr. Francesca Brezzi 10. The Reception of Etty Hillesum's Writings in French Language Prof. Dr. Paul Lebeau 11. Etty Hillesum and her Catholic worshippers : A Plea for a More Critical Approach to Etty Hillesum's Writings Dr. Ria van den Brandt Writing and Witnessing 12. Etty Hillesum: A Portrait of a Holocaust Artist Prof. Dr. Rachel Feldhay Brenner 13. There was little of that harmonious rolling out of God's hand : Struggle and Balance in the Diaries of Etty Hillesum Drs. Debbie Pevenage 14. Etty Hillesum: ecriture feminine? Dr. Denise de Costa 15. Feeling Life: How Etty Hillesum Becomes Word Dr. Maria Gabriella Nocita 16. Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) and Abel Herzberg (1893-1989): Two Dutch Chroniclers of the Shoah Dr. Bettine Siertsema 17. Two Voices from Westerbork: Etty Hillesum and Philip Mechanicus on the Transport from Camp Westerbork on 24 August 1943 Gerrit Van Oord 18. Witnesses and Victims of Massacre: The Literary Testimony of Samuel Usque and Etty Hillesum Drs. Patricia Couto 19. Let's Talk about Hope! Etty Hillesum's Future-perspective - We may suffer, but we must not succumb. Mr. Manja Pach 20. Context, Dilemmas and Misunderstandings during the Composition and Publication of An Interrupted Life, Etty Hillesum's Diary, 1941-1943 Drs. Jan Geurt Gaarlandt The 'Thinking Heart' 21. Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Works of Etty Hillesum Prof. Dr. Fulvio C. Manara 22. Why is Etty Hillesum a Great Thinker? Prof. Dr. Maria Filomena Molder 23. Etty Hillesum's Psychological and Spiritual Path: Towards an Ethics of Responsibility Dr. Nadia Neri 24. The Road of Etty Hillesum to Nothingness Frits Grimmelikhuizen

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Klaas A. D. Smelik (1950) was born in the Netherlands and studied Theology, Semitic Languages, and Ancient History in Utrecht, Amsterdam, and Leiden. He taught Old Testament and Hebrew in Utrecht, Amsterdam, and Brussels, and Jewish History at the K.U. Leuven. Since 2005, he has taught Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ghent University and is director of the Etty Hillesum Research Centre (EHOC) there. He edited the Dutch and English unabridged editions of Etty Hillesum's writings and, together with Ria van den Brandt, the Etty Hillesum Studies. He has (as writer or editor) published around 30 books and 200 articles on the Hebrew Bible, ancient Hebrew inscriptions, ancient history, Jewish studies, anti-Semitism, and Etty Hillesum. This year, he hopes to finish his book on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Ria van den Brandt (1960) is a philosopher , specialized in spiritual traditions, twentieth-century life stories, poetry, and textual reception history. She is associate senior researcher at the Faculty of Religious Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, and affiliated researcher at the Westerbork Memorial Centre in the Netherlands. Van den Brandt is editor with Klaas A.D. Smelik of the Etty Hillesum Studies. She has written many articles on Etty Hillesum and other subjects, and published (as editor or writer) around fifteen books. Her book Denken met Etty Hillesum was published in 2006. Van den Brandt's actual field of research concerns Jewish witnesses of the Second World War, particularly witnesses of Theresienstadt. Meins G. S. Coetsier (1977) was born in the Netherlands and obtained his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy (National University of Ireland) in Dublin. In 2008, he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy at Ghent University for his work on Eric Voegelin. Coetsier is affiliated with the Research Foundation in Flanders (FWO) and is staff member at the Etty Hillesum Research Centre (EHOC). He is author of Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence: A Voegelinian Analysis (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2008). He is currently focusing on Hillesum's writings in the light of Eric Voegelin, Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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