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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Zaretsky, Robert, 1955- author.     Subjects     Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.     Women philosophers -- France -- Biography.     Philosophy, French -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Zaretsky, Robert, 1955- author.       by title:      The subversive Simon...         MARC Display

The subversive Simone Weil : a life in five ideas / Robert Zaretsky. by Zaretsky, Robert, 1955- author. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Subjects Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.   Women philosophers -- France -- Biography.   Philosophy, French -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780226549330 (hardcover) : Description:  x, 181 pages ; 23 cm Contents:  The force of affliction -- Paying attention -- The varieties of resistance -- Finding roots -- The good, the bad, and the godly -- Epilogue. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 194 Weil Za   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Laupahoehoe P/S Library Adult Biography Weil Za Biography Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 194 Weil Za   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 194 Weil Za   Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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