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Subversive Simone Weil

A Life in Five Ideas

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"Subversive Simone Weil" is published by University of Chicago Press in 2021 - Chicago (Ill.), it has 200 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Subversive Simone Weil
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 200
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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  • Publish Location: Chicago (Ill.)

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"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"

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