“The Visionaries” takes on the ideas of Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil
Arendt is one of four women whose lives and thoughts Wolfram Eilenberger, a philosopher, recounts in this lively book, which spans the turbulent years from 1933 to 1943 . The others are, a pioneering feminist; Simone Weil, a trade-union activist who combined mysticism with a yen for social justice; and Ayn Rand, a Russia-born critic of communism who immigrated to America and later shaped the doctrine of libertarianism .
Mr Eilenberger applauds Arendt’s integrity and toughness. But, after an exciting start, she is not a vivid presence on the page. Weil is more sharply drawn—squabbling with her parents’ tenant, Leon Trotsky, and, as a volunteer in the, scalding her feet in a pot of boiling oil. Between stints working in a factory and flights of religious ecstasy, she wrote tirelessly, hardly eating or sleeping as she crafted essays on the empty rhetoric of extremism and man’s “need for roots”.
Unlike the other three, de Beauvoir was not from a Jewish family. Nazism impinged on her less directly, and during this period she channelled much of her energy into a liaison with a fellow philosopher,. The couple had many lovers, who formed a “network of asymmetrical relationships and dependencies that eluded any kind of benevolent description”, writes Mr Eilenberger. These entanglements exhausted her.
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