The Subversive Simone Weil : : a Life in Five Ideas
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The force of affliction -- Paying attention -- The varieties of resistance -- Finding roots -- The good, the bad, and the godly -- Epilogue.
"Simone Weil is one of the most challenging and yet beguiling thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a highly charged mystical current that runs through her life and works that seems almost timeless. And yet Weil was a keen observer of the modern condition, coming of age as she did during the 1930s. Amid the recurrent indignities and inhumanities of modern life, she wondered what is to become of the precious space we have for grace, for friendship, and for truth? One of our most astute historians of existentialism, Robert Zaretsky shifts his attention to the utterly original Simone Weil with this new book. Taking up the central elements of her philosophy-affliction, attention, resistance, roots, and spirituality-he explores how they animated her life, and how they might animate ours"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Year Published: 2023
Description: x, 181 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0226826600
9780226826608
SUBJECTS
Weil, Simone, -- 1909-1943.
Women philosophers -- France -- Biography.
Philosophy, French -- 20th century.