Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture
Readings Toward a Divine Humanity
- Editor: Richard H. Bell
- Date Published: March 1993
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521432634
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As the editor of this volume writes in his introduction: 'Simone Weil's philosophy is one that interrogates and contemplates our culture; it makes us aware of our lack of attention to words and empty ideologies, to human suffering, to the indignity of work, to our excessive use of power, to religious dogmatisms. Rather than set out a system of ideas, Simone Weil uses her philosophical reflections to show how to think about work and oppression, freedom and the good, necessity and power, love and justice - even how to think about, or not think about, God. In this way we are asked to examine the human condition and learn to discern a way through it.' This is one of the very few books available in English to present a comprehensive interpretation of the philosophy of Simone Weil and how her thought can cast light on issues of contemporary importance such as work, justice, the law, war and peace, and issues of more general moral and theological concern.
Read more- Distinguished academic team of well-known contributors
- First comprehensive interpretation in English of some of Weil's fundamental philosophical themes
- Oriented toward issues of contemporary relevance and importance
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- Date Published: March 1993
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521432634
- length: 336 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 157 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.626kg
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
Part I. Readings: The Grammar of the Divine and the Human:
1. Simone Weil's concept of decreation
2. The necessary non-existence of God
3. God and concept-formation in Simone Weil
4. The concept of reading and the book of nature
5. Discernment and the imagination
6. On the right use of contradiction according to Simone Weil
Part II. Readings Toward a Divine Humanity:
7. Rootedness: culture and value
8. Simone Weil and the civilization of work
9. Reading Simone Weil on rights, justice and love
10. The spirit of Simone Weil's law
11. Simone Weil on beauty
12. Simone Weil and Antigone: innocence and affliction
13. Simone Weil: Harbinger of a New Renaissance?
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