SIMONE WEIL AND THE POLITICS OF SELF-DENIAL by Athanasios Moulakis, Ruth Hein (Trans) ( 9780826211620 )

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SIMONE WEIL AND THE POLITICS OF SELF-DENIAL

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0826211623

ISBN 13:

9780826211620

Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS

Pub. date:

28 February, 1998

Pages:

280

Translated from:

German

Description:

This study of the development of Simone Weil's thought is placed in the context of the political and social conditions of the last days of the Third French Republic, the Spanish Civil War, and the rise and clash of totalitarian ideologies.

Synopsis:

"Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-Denial" delivers what no other book on Weil has a comprehensive study of her political thought. In this examination of the development of her thought, Athanasios Moulakis offers a philosophical understanding of politics that reaches beyond current affairs and ideological advocacy.Simone Weil philosopher, activist, mystic unites a profound reflection on the human condition with a consistent and courageous existential and intellectual honesty manifest in the moving testimony of her life and her death. Moulakis examines Weil's political thought as an integral part of a lived philosophy, in which analysis and doctrine are inseparable from the articulation of an intensely personal, ultimately religious experience.Because it is impossible to distinguish Weil's life from her thought, her writings cannot be understood properly without linking them to her life and character. By situating Weil's political thought within the context of the intellectual climate of her time, Moulakis connects it also to her epistemology, her cosmology, and her personal experience."Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-Denial" presents the unfolding of Weil's philosophical life against the backdrop of the political and social conditions of the last days of the Third French Republic, the Spanish Civil War, and the rise and clash of totalitarian ideologies. The ideological climate of the age of which Weil herself was not quite free was indeed the major "obstacle" in the struggle against which she fashioned her critical, intellectual, and moral tools.Weil has been categorized a number of ways: as a saint and a near convert to Roman Catholicism, as a social critic, or as an analytic philosopher. Moulakis examines "all" aspects of Weil's thought in the indissoluble unity in which she lived them. This thorough investigation pursues the particular intellectual affiliations and the social and political experiential stimuli of Weil's work while simultaneously teasing out the timeless themes that her own timely analysis was intended to reveal."

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bibliography, index

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University of Missouri Press

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Returnable

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