Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, philosopher, psychoanalyst and author, died last Thursday. She was 65.
Young-Bruehl was "concerned throughout her work with the psychological roots of ideology--personal, cultural, national and above all prejudicial," the New York Times wrote.
Young-Bruehl wrote biographies of Hannah Arendt and Anna Freud; Mind and the Body Politic, a collection of essays on history, feminism and psychoanalysis; Why Arendt Matters; and The Anatomy of Prejudices, about bigotry. Yale University Press, publisher of many of Young-Bruehl's work, is publishing her latest book, Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children, on January 10.
