The subversive Simone Weil a life in five ideas

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 19...

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Other Authors: Zaretsky, Robert, 1955- autor (autor)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press [2021]
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Summary: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 -- Editor
Physical Description:X, 181 páginas ; 23 cm
Bibliography:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice
ISBN:9780226549330