| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-169) and index. |
| Contents |
FOREWORD; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. Affliction, Love, and Geometry; Chapter 2. Gnosis; Chapter 3. Intellect and Grace; Chapter 4. Cantor, Infinity, and the Silence; Chapter 5. T.E. Lawrence and the Purification of Evil; Chapter 6. Marx, Oppression, and Liberty; Chapter 7. Nationalism; Chapter 8. Heidegger, Science, and Technology; Chapter 9. Love in Abandonment; Chapter 10. Recovering the Sacred in Humanity; Chapter 11. The Life and Death of Simone Weil; Chapter 12. Time and Timelessness; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. |
| Summary |
As a thinker, mystic and social critic, Simone Weil is one of the most extraordinary figures of the 20th century. She was a Marxist who experienced the relations of power between producing and ruling classes first hand as a field and factory worker. She was an internationalist who felt that the fall of Paris was a 'great day for Indo-China', and yet she wanted to fight for France. Camus called her social writings 'more penetrating and more prophetic than anything since Marx.' What comes through strongly in this book are Weil's power of analysis and criticism, her love of truth and hunger for j. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.
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Weil, Simone, 1909-1943. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Andic, Martin.
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Finch, Annie, 1956-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Finch, Henry Le Roy. Simone Weil and the intellect of grace. New York : Continuum, 2001, ©1999 0826413609 9780826413604 (OCoLC)49051364 |
| ISBN |
9781847141880 (electronic book) |
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1847141889 (electronic book) |
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1281297984 |
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9781281297983 |
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