Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture: Readings Toward a Divine Humanity

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Richard H. Bell
CUP Archive, Mar 4, 1993 - Philosophy - 318 pages
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.
 

Contents

Simone Weils concept of decreation
25
The necessary nonexistence of
42
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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
Select bibliography
310
Copyright

culture and value
161

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