The subversive Simone Weil : a life in five ideas / Robert Zaretsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaretsky, Robert, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.

Weil, Simone.

Women philosophers--France--Biography.

Women philosophers.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

France.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 181 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One The Force of Affliction

ch. Two Paying Attention

ch. Three The Varieties of Resistance

ch. Four Finding Roots

ch. Five The Good, the Bad, and the Godly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226549330

022654933X

OCLC:

1195816144