Simone Weil and the Specter of Self-perpetuating Force
Author | : E. Jane Doering |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Violence |
ISBN | : 9780268077709 |
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Author | : E. Jane Doering |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Violence |
ISBN | : 9780268077709 |
Author | : E. Jane Doering |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Doering analyzes the material in Simone Weil's notebooks and lesser known essays in order to discuss her thoughts on violence, war, and injustice.
Author | : Sophie Bourgault |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2020-12-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030484017 |
In the last decade, interest in the writings of French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) has surged. Weil is admired for her militant syndicalism, her factory experience and participation in the French resistance, but it is above all the eclectic and rich character of her work that has increasingly attracted scholarly attention. Weil reflected on subjects as diverse as quantum physics, Greek tragedy, bankruptcy, colonialism, technology, education, and religious metaphysics, but perhaps most interesting is the way that her work seems to defy any clear ideological labelling: Marxist, anarchist, liberal, conservative and republican all seem to fall short in describing the complexity of Weil’s thinking. Adding to the interpretive difficulty is the fact that Weil often expressed biting criticisms of most things political. What this edited volume argues is that it is precisely Weil’s unclassifiable nature, combined with her sharp and sometimes ambivalent criticisms of politics, that make her work a most timely and fascinating object of study for contemporary political philosophy. It proposes a two-pronged approach to her thought: first, via a series of conversations set up between Weil and key authors in modern and contemporary political theory (e.g. Sandel, Rawls, Ahmed, Agamben, Orwell); and secondly, via a close study of Weil’s reflections on various ideologies. The goal of this book is not to position Simone Weil squarely within a single ideological tradition but rather to propose that her thought might allow us to critically engage with various ideologies in the history of political ideas.
Author | : Kathryn Lawson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2024-02-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1350344478 |
Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil were two of the most compelling political thinkers of the 20th century who, despite having similar life-experiences, developed radically distinct political philosophies. This unique dialogue between the writings of Arendt and Weil highlights Arendt's secular humanism, her emphasis on heroic action, and her rejection of the moral approach to politics, contrasted starkly with Weil's religious approach, her faith in the power of divine Goodness, and her other-centric ethic of suffering and affliction. The writings here respect the profound differences between Arendt and Weil whilst pulling out the shared preoccupations of power, violence, freedom, resistance, responsibility, attention, aesthetics, and vulnerability. Without shying away from exploring the more difficult concepts in these philosophers' works, Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil also aims to pull out the relevance of their writings for contemporary issues.
Author | : Vance G. Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : |
An overview of Simone Weil's writings on science and mathematics which opens the door to dialogue between philosophy, art, and religion
Author | : Cynthia R. Wallace |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2024-04-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0231560230 |
The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909–1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and the posthumous publication of her writings. She has also provoked an extraordinary range of literary writing focused on not only her ideas but also her person: novels, nonfiction, and especially poetry. Given the challenges of Weil’s ethic of self-emptying attention, what accounts for her appeal, especially among women writers? This book tells the story of some of Weil’s most dedicated—and at points surprising—literary conversation partners, exploring why writers with varied political and religious commitments have found her thought and life so resonant. Cynthia R. Wallace considers authors who have devoted decades of attention to Weil, such as Adrienne Rich, Annie Dillard, and Mary Gordon, and who have written poetic sequences or book-length verse biographies of Weil, including Maggie Helwig, Stephanie Strickland, Kate Daniels, Sarah Klassen, Anne Carson, and Lorri Neilsen Glenn. She illuminates how writing to, of, and in the tradition of Weil has helped these writers grapple with the linked harms and possibilities of religious belief, self-giving attention, and the kind of moral seriousness required by the ethical and political crises of late modernity. The first book to trace Weil’s influence on Anglophone literature, The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil provides new ways to understand Weil’s legacy and why her provocative wisdom continues to challenge and inspire writers and readers.
Author | : A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567609464 |
Simone Weil - philosopher, religious thinker, mystic, social/political activist - is notoriously difficult to categorize, since her life and writings challenge traditional academic boundaries. As many scholars have recognized, she set out few, if any, systematic theories, especially when it came to religious ideas. In this book, A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and Lucian Stone illuminate the ways in which Weil stands outside Western theological tradition by her use of paradox to resist the clamoring for greater degrees of certainty. Beyond a facile fallibilism, Simone Weil's ideas about the super-natural, love, Christianity, and spiritual action, and indeed, her seeming endorsement of a sort of atheism, detachment, foolishness, and passivity, begin to unravel old assumptions about what it is to encounter the divine.
Author | : A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-11-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1786601338 |
Offering new insight into the pertinence of Simone Weil’s thought, this volume situates her in the Continental discourses which constituted her philosophical background, her milieu, and which frequently reflected her departures from her contemporaries.
Author | : Simone Weil |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742522831 |
Twentieth-century French philosopher Simone Weil's complete writings on colonialism are collected and translated into English in this volume. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author | : A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2024-02-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192846965 |
A concise and lively overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. The breadth, poignancy, and prescience of Weil's philosophy has much to offer us in our times of personal, communal, political, and environmental crises.