Simone Weil and the intellect of grace:
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1. Verfasser: Finch, Henry Le Roy (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Continuum 2001, ©1999
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-169) and index
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.
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
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ISBN:9781847141880
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