Health Care Workers Remember Alex Pretti

In On Freedom, Timothy Snyder writes,

“The German philosopher Edith Stein put her own body forward during the First World War. A graduate student, she took leave to volunteer as a nurse. When she returned to her dissertation, her time with the wounded guided her argument about empathy. “Do we not,” she asked, “need the mediation of the body to assure ourselves of the existence of another person?” [1]”

The German word she used for “body” was “Leib.”

Snyder argues that for freedom to exist...