Spirit, nature, and community : issues in the thought of Simone Weil
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Spirit, nature, and community : issues in the thought of Simone Weil
（SUNY series, Simone Weil studies）
State University of New York Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-236) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book covers the main aspects of Simone Weil's thought, drawing on her life where it is relevant for understanding her ideas. It is the fruit of many years engagement with scholars and scholarship on Weil in America, France, and the United Kingdom. The philosophical bases of her social and political thought, of her analysis of the natural world, and of her spiritual journey, as found in Plato, Epictetus, and Kant are uncovered.
The authors are especially concerned with controversial aspects of Weil's life and thought: they offer an additional dimension to her understanding of the supernatural; they correct Rowan Williams' misunderstanding of her account of preferential love; and argue against Thomas Nevin's attempt to marginalize her as another example of Jewish self-hatred. The book also presents and assesses the new evidence for Weil's baptism.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I: No Longer on the Margins?
1. The Baptism of Simone Weil
2. No Longer on the Margins?
Part II: Nature and Necessity
3. Divine Necessity: Weilian and Platonic Conceptions
4. The Concept of Reading and the Book of Nature
5. Winch on Weil's Supernaturalism
Part III: The Journey of the Soul
6. The Enigma of Affliction
7. The Love of Particulars
8. George Herbert and Simone Weil
Part IV: Persons and Communities
9. Of Tennis, Persons, and Politics
10. Rootedness: Culture and Value
Part V: Epilogue
11. From Words to the Word: Weilian Resources for a New Christian Humanism
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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