Simone Weil, attention to the real / Robert Chenavier ; translated by Bernard E. Doering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chenavier, Robert.

Standardized Title:

Simone Weil, l'attention au réel. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.

Weil, Simone.

Physical Description:

xi, 92 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2012]

Summary:

Originally published in French in 2009, Simone Weil Attention to the Real leads the reader through Weil's earliest writing as a perceptive social critic to her work on spirituality and materialism, and finally to her concept of decreation, produced before her death at the age of thirty-four. "To an exceptional degree," Chenavier says, "the life of Simone Weil, her personality, her commitment, and her reflection form one single whole." Chenavier argues that Weil's vocation took on a very original form in the history of philosophical thought. Book jacket.

Contents:

Concerning the "real life" in the "land of the real"

The exercise of philosophical thought

On the good use of materialism

Philosophy and spirituality

Decreation, completing creating.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-92).

ISBN:

9780268023737

0268023735

9780268076887

026807688X

OCLC:

794361983