Les hommes et les choses

Archives de Philosophie 72 (4):607-626 (2009)
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Cet article est consacré au thème de la déshumanisation chez Simone Weil. Elle cherche à expliquer la facilité avec laquelle les individus sont dépouillés de leur humanité et traités comme de simples choses. La phénoménologie éthique d’Emmanuel Levinas est sollicitée pour éclairer les analyses weiliennes. L’accent est particulièrement mis sur l’importance de l’attention en éthique et sur la complexe et ambiguë conception weilienne de l’individu, entité à la fois personnelle et impersonnelle.This article focuses on dehumanization in the writings of Simone Weil. She tries to explain why people are easily stripped of their humanity and treated like material objects. In the article a comparison is drawn between her analysis of dehumanization and Emmanuel Levinas’ phenomenology of ethics. The emphasis is put on the importance of attention in ethics and on Weil’s complex and ambiguous conception of the individual as a personal and impersonal entity

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