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Rachel Bespaloff

Born

in Nova Zagora, Bulgaria

May 14, 1895

Died

April 06, 1949

Genre

Philosophy

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Rachel Bespaloff (1895-1949) was a Ukrainian-French philosopher.

Rachel Bespaloff came from a Ukrainian Jewish family: her father was the Zionist writer and activist Daniel Pasmanik. A disciple of Leo Shestov, Bespaloff took an increasingly critical distance from Shestov throughout the 1930s. She was one of the first French readers of Heidegger, and wrote on Kierkegaard, Gabriel Marcel, André Malraux, and Julien Green. In 1942 she left France for the United States, working for the French section of the Office of War Information before teaching French at Mount Holyoke College. She committed suicide in 1949.

Bespaloff's correspondence with Gabriel Marcel, Daniel Halévy, Boris de Schloezer Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean Wahl has been posthumously pub ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,048 ratings · 163 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sull'Iliade 3.70 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1943 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'istante e la libertà by Rachel Bespaloff, Laura Sanò (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El mundo del condenado a muerte: Las encrucijadas de Camus by Rachel Bespaloff, Manuel Arranz (Translator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De la compréhension musicale à la métaphysique de l'instant - écrits sur la musique et la danse by Rachel Bespaloff, Olivier Salazar-Ferrer (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lettres à Jean Wahl 1937–1947 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cheminements Et Carrefours: Julien Green, Andre Malraux, Gabriel Marcel, Kierkegaard, Chestov Devant Nietzsche (Essais D'Art Et de Philosophie) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1938 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Su Heidegger 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La vérité que nous sommes - correspondance avec Léon Chestov et Benjamin Fondane by Rachel Bespaloff, Lev Shestov, Benjamin Fondane 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kenyon Review. Winter 1949. Vol. XI, No. 1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La sfida delle libertà 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Through cruelty force confesses its powerlessness to achieve omnipotence . . . We see weakness dawning at the very height of force. Unable to admit that total destruction is impossible, the conqueror can only reply to the mute defiance of his defenseless adversary with an ever-growing violence.”
― Rachel Bespaloff

tags: force, war

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“Where history showed us only ramparts and frontiers, poetry discovered a mysterious predestination that makes two adversaries, whose meeting is inexorable, worthy of each other. And Homer asks no quarter, save from poetry, which repossesses beauty from death and wrests from it the secret of justice that history cannot fathom. To the darkened world poetry alone restores pride, eclipsed by the arrogance of the victors and the silence of the vanquished.”
― Rachel Bespaloff, War and the Iliad

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