The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casewell, Deborah.

Contributor:

Casewell, Deborah

Series:

Routledge Philosophy Companions Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (523 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

The remarkable life and work of Simone Weil has fascinated scholars from many disciplines, with Camus calling her the 'only great spirit of our times'. This book is invaluable resource for anyone studying Weil's thought, whether in philosophy and religious studies or related disciplines such as political theory, literature or Jewish studies.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Simone Weil for Our Times?

PART I: Contextualizing Weil

1. Historical Context

2. Biography

3. Key Texts and Reception History

4. Philosopher, Mystic, Activist

PART II: Philosophical Sources

5. Plato

6. Stoicism

7. Kant

8. Alain (Émile Chartier)

9. Marx

10. The Bhagavad-Gita

PART III: Key Concepts

11. Necessity and Force

12. Beauty

13. Decreation

14. Attention

15. Love

16. Affliction

17. God

18. Labor and Work

19. Metaxu

20. The Body

PART IV: Politics and Society

21. Slavery

22. Rootedness

23. Justice, Human Rights and Obligations

24. Colonialism, Antifascism, and Force's Many Faces

PART V: Interactions with Religion

25. Catholicism

26. Judaism

27. Indic Thought

28. Asceticism

PART VI: Conversations

29. Weil and the Existentialists

30. Weil and Moral Philosophy

31. Weil and Political Philosophy

32. Weil and Phenomenology

33. Weil and Literature

34. Weil and the Search for Truth

35. Weil and Feminist Thought

36. Weil and the Creative Arts

37. Weil and Contemporary Concerns

Afterword: Simone Weil's Path of Exile

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781003468813

OCLC:

1597384872