Simone Weil and the Intellect of Grace: A Window on the World of Simone Weil - Softcover

Finch, Henry Leroy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826413609 ISBN 13: 9780826413604

Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1999

Inhaltsangabe

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 justice, her commitment to non-violence, and, most of all, her regard for everyone and everything marginalized or excluded by orthodoxies and establishments, whether colonized people or heresy.

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Henry Leroy Finch taught philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College for twenty years and at Hunter College for sixteen years. He was the author of three books on Ludwig Wittgenstein and edited the papers of Eric Gutkind. He was one of the founders of the American Weil Society in 1970. He died in 1998.Martin Andiç is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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• Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0826413609
• ISBN 13: 9780826413604
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 177
• Herausgeber: Andic Martin
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