Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture: Readings Toward a Divine HumanityRichard H. Bell CUP Archive, 4 de mar. de 1993 - 318 páginas As the editor of this volume writes in his introduction: 'Simone Weil's philosophy is one that interrogates and contemplates our culture; it makes us aware of our lack of attention to words and empty ideologies, to human suffering, to the indignity of work, to our excessive use of power, to religious dogmatisms. Rather than set out a system of ideas, Simone Weil uses her philosophical reflections to show how to think about work and oppression, freedom and the good, necessity and power, love and justice - even how to think about, or not think about, God. In this way we are asked to examine the human condition and learn to discern a way through it.' This is one of the very few books available in English to present a comprehensive interpretation of the philosophy of Simone Weil and how her thought can cast light on issues of contemporary importance such as work, justice, the law, war and peace, and issues of more general moral and theological concern. |
Conteúdo
Simone Weils concept of decreation | 25 |
The necessary nonexistence of | 42 |
3 | 60 |
God and conceptformation in Simone Weil | 77 |
The concept of reading and the Book of Nature | 93 |
DIOGENES ALLEN | 127 |
Discernment and the imagination | 137 |
On the right use of contradiction according | 150 |
Simone Weil and the civilisation of work | 189 |
Reading Simone Weil on rights justice and love | 214 |
The spirit of Simone Weils law | 235 |
Simone Weil on beauty | 260 |
innocence and affliction | 277 |
harbinger of a new Renaissance? | 295 |
310 | |
culture and value | 161 |
Termos e frases comuns
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