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 offers a comprehensive account of international scholarship on the life, works and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), and her struggle to come to terms with her personal life in the context of the Holocaust.

About the author

Klaas A.D. Smelik, D.D. (1977, University of Amsterdam), emeritus professor Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ghent University. He has published or edited about 40 monographs, several translations and many articles on the Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Philology, Judaism, Ancient History and Etty Hillesum, including Spirituality in the Writings of Etty Hillesum (Brill 2010).

Meins G.S. Coetsier, Ph.D. (2008 in Philosophy; 2012 in Comparative Science of Cultures, Ghent University), is staff member and researcher at the Etty Hillesum Research Centre. He is co-editor of Spirituality in the Writings of Etty Hillesum (Brill, 2010), and author of The Existential Philosophy of Etty Hillesum: An Analysis of Her Diaries and Letters (Brill, 2014).

Jurjen Wiersma, D.D. (1981, University of Amsterdam), professor emeritus of ethics and philosophy at the University Faculty of Protestant Theology in Brussels. Areas of interest concern the European Union as an ethico-theological challenge, Bonhoeffer studies and liberation theology. His recent publication is a monograph on liberation theology updated Bevrijdingstheologie Actueel (Garant, Antwerp-Apeldoorn 2016).

Product details

• Assisted by: Meins G S Coetsier (Editor), Meins G. S. Coetsier (Editor), Netherlands (Editor), Klaas a D Smelik (Editor), Klaas A. D. Smelik (Editor), Jurjen Wiersma (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2017
• EAN: 9789004341333
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34133-3
• No. of pages: 404
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: Supplements to the Journal of
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous