ABOUT WOMEN - THE MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
ABOUT WOMEN - THE MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS

Summary/Abstract: Religious-Philosophical Articles XXIX are about women in philosophy and religion; about women in the time and space of European culture in the 20th-21st centuries. Edith Stein, Marta Nussbaum, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Julia Kristeva and many others. In the article on feminism and aesthetics, Māra Rubene has called them caryatids. Caryatids seem to have something in common with mountain climbers – loneliness. Didn’t Rainis write in his poem Mountain Climber that “you will become lonelier year after year”? Lack of understanding of the nearest ones, ridicule of others, dismay of friends at encounters – all this forms a framework of loneliness, a mountain where you are alone with your fears, hopes and also with the feeling that being alone on the top of the hill, you are more than yourself. You are the fulfilment of longings of the women who did not have the opportunity, did not have enough strength or who just started descending at some point. However, Rainis also wrote about the feeling, which outweighs loneliness: “... But all the earth’s longings will burn in the chest.” At least when we read Edith Stein’s texts, we can easily imagine this feeling like one of the recognisable signs of her world perception.

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