Verfasst von:	Zaretsky, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	The subversive Simone Weil
Titelzusatz:	a life in five ideas
Institutionen:	University of Chicago Press [Verlag]
Verf.angabe:	Robert Zaretsky
Verlagsort:	Chicago ; London
Verlag:	The University of Chicago Press
Jahr:	2021
Umfang:	x, 181 Seiten
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-0-226-82660-8
	978-0-226-54933-0
Abstract:	"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"--
DOI:	doi:1https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226549477.001.0001
URL:	DOI: https://doi.org/1https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226549477.001.0001
Schlagwörter:	(p)Weil, Simone
Dokumenttyp:	Biografie
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Zaretsky, Robert, 1955 - : The Subversive Simone Weil. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (192 pages)
RVK-Notation:	CI 6292
K10plus-PPN:	1736823078