Decreation And The Ethical Bind In The Writings Of Simone Weil

Author : Yoon Sook Cha
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823275274

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Decreation and the Ethical Bind by Yoon Sook Cha Pdf

In Simone Weil’s philosophical and literary work, obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: the other’s self-affirmation and one’s own dislocation; what one has and what one has to give; a demand that asks for too much and the extraordinary demand implied by asking nothing. The other’s claims upon the self—which induce unfinished obligation, unmet sleep, hunger—drive the tensions that sustain the scene of ethical relationality at the heart of this book. Decreation and the Ethical Bind is a study in decreative ethics in which self-dispossession conditions responsiveness to a demand to preserve the other from harm. In examining themes of obligation, vulnerability, and the force of weak speech that run from Levinas to Butler, the book situates Weil within a continental tradition of literary theory in which writing and speech articulate ethical appeal and the vexations of response. It elaborates a form of ethics that is not grounded in subjective agency and narrative coherence but one that is inscribed at the site of the self’s depersonalization.

Author : Yoon Sook Cha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 0823277089

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Decreation and the Ethical Bind by Yoon Sook Cha Pdf

A close reading of Simone Weil's philosophical and literary writings examining themes of ethical obligation, dispossession and vulnerability in relation to the works of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot and Judith Butler.

Author : A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786601339

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Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone Pdf

Offering new insight into the pertinence of Simone Weil’s thought, this volume situates her in the Continental discourses which constituted her philosophical background, her milieu, and which frequently reflected her departures from her contemporaries.

Author : Yoon Sook Cha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3497147

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Decreation and the Ethical Bind in the Writings of Simone Weil by Yoon Sook Cha Pdf

Author : Richard H. Bell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847690806

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Simone Weil by Richard H. Bell Pdf

Simone Weil (1909-1943), a French philosopher of Jewish origin, is regarded by commentators as a classic example of the "self-hating Jew" and an inheritor of many religious traditions, belonging to none specifically. Ch. 9 (pp. 165-189), "Simone Weil, Post-Holocaust Judaism, and the Way of Compassion, " contends that Weil's Jewish background influenced her thought. As a victim of anti-Jewish laws, she believed in God even when He was silent and hid His countenance from humanity. Had Weil survived the war, her reaction to the Holocaust might have been consonant with that of the fictional Yossel Rakover, the hero of Zvi Kolitz's short story.

Author : A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192846969

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Simone Weil: a Very Short Introduction by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone Pdf

A concise and lively overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. The breadth, poignancy, and prescience of Weil's philosophy has much to offer us in our times of personal, communal, political, and environmental crises.

Author : Rush Rhees,Mario von der Ruhr
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015048852035

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Discussions of Simone Weil by Rush Rhees,Mario von der Ruhr Pdf

A distinguished discussion of Weil's views on social philosophy, science, ethics, and religion.

Author : 贺业钜,Siân Miles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : City planning
ISBN : 0860685543

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中国古代城市规划史论丛 by 贺业钜,Siân Miles Pdf

Author : John Hellman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781725255531

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Simone Weil by John Hellman Pdf

Albert Camus called her "the only great spirit of our time." She was one of the most prominent French political thinkers of this century. She was a brilliant social activist, a vigilant and critical Marxist. Her religious and philosophical writings are remarkable in their originality. And yet Simone Weil died without ever writing a complete book and without ever formulating a major intellectual testament. In this study of her life and thought, John Hellman synthesizes insights drawn from her varied, fragmentary writings--notebooks, essays, and letters--into a single, highly original view of the world. This fascinating book reinforces the belief that Simone Weil remains one of the most imaginative and out-of-the-ordinary forces in twentieth-century political thought and social activism.

Author : Sophie Bourgault,Julie Daigle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030484019

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Simone Weil, Beyond Ideology? by Sophie Bourgault,Julie Daigle Pdf

In the last decade, interest in the writings of French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) has surged. Weil is admired for her militant syndicalism, her factory experience and participation in the French resistance, but it is above all the eclectic and rich character of her work that has increasingly attracted scholarly attention. Weil reflected on subjects as diverse as quantum physics, Greek tragedy, bankruptcy, colonialism, technology, education, and religious metaphysics, but perhaps most interesting is the way that her work seems to defy any clear ideological labelling: Marxist, anarchist, liberal, conservative and republican all seem to fall short in describing the complexity of Weil’s thinking. Adding to the interpretive difficulty is the fact that Weil often expressed biting criticisms of most things political. What this edited volume argues is that it is precisely Weil’s unclassifiable nature, combined with her sharp and sometimes ambivalent criticisms of politics, that make her work a most timely and fascinating object of study for contemporary political philosophy. It proposes a two-pronged approach to her thought: first, via a series of conversations set up between Weil and key authors in modern and contemporary political theory (e.g. Sandel, Rawls, Ahmed, Agamben, Orwell); and secondly, via a close study of Weil’s reflections on various ideologies. The goal of this book is not to position Simone Weil squarely within a single ideological tradition but rather to propose that her thought might allow us to critically engage with various ideologies in the history of political ideas.

Author : Benjamin P. Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781538171967

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Simone Weil's Political Philosophy by Benjamin P. Davis Pdf

"Davis demonstrates how Simone Weil's Marxism challenges current neoliberal understandings of the self and of human rights. Explaining her related critiques of colonialism and of political parties, it presents Weil as a twentieth-century political philosopher who anticipated and critically responded to the most contemporary political theory"--

Author : Kathryn Lawson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781040021491

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Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil by Kathryn Lawson Pdf

This book places the philosophy of Simone Weil into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns in the Anthropocene. The book offers a systematic interpretation of Simone Weil, making her ethical philosophy more accessible to non-Weil scholars. Weil’s work has been influential in many fields, including politically and theologically-based critiques of social inequalities and suffering, but rarely linked to ecology. Kathryn Lawson argues that Weil’s work can be understood as offering a coherent approach with potentially widespread appeal applicable to our ethical relations to much more than just other human beings. She suggests that the process of "decreation" in Weil is an expansion of the self which might also come to include the surrounding earth and a vast assemblage of others. This allows readers to consider what it means to be human in this time and place, and to contemplate our ethical responsibilities both to other humans and also to the more-than-human world. Ultimately, the book uses Weil’s thought to decanter the human being by cultivating human actions towards an ecological ethics. This book will be useful for Simone Weil scholars and academics, as well as students and researchers interested in environmental ethics in departments of comparative literature, theory and criticism, philosophy, and environmental studies.

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1003205917

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Simone Weil by Simone Weil Pdf

"Simone Weil is one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century. Her writings encompass an extraordinary breadth of subjects, including philosophy, religion, sociology, and politics. A political activist and resistance fighter, her accomplishments are even more astonishing in light of her death in 1943 at the age of thirty-four. Whilst Weil was concerned with deep philosophical questions - the nature of human thought and human faculties, the limits of language, and thought's contact with reality through mediation, science and beauty - the full significance of her work has frequently been obscured by her categorization as a purely religious writer or Christian mystic. Simone Weil: Basic Writings is an expertly edited anthology of her most important writings, presenting Weil's philosophy as it relates to politics, the nature of work, human nature in its duality, necessity, beauty and goodness. D. K. Levy and Marina Barabas have translated all the extracts anew, including translations of important notes and references missing from existing English language editions of Weil's work. Following an extensive introduction by D. K. Levy which places Weil's life and thought in context, each section opens with a short introduction situating the chosen passages within Weil's oeuvre. Simone Weil: Basic Writings is an outstanding starting point for anyone seeking an introduction to Weil's philosophy, and also essential reading for students and scholars of Weil's thought in related disciplines"--

Author : Cynthia R. Wallace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231560238

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The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil by Cynthia R. Wallace Pdf

The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909–1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and the posthumous publication of her writings. She has also provoked an extraordinary range of literary writing focused on not only her ideas but also her person: novels, nonfiction, and especially poetry. Given the challenges of Weil’s ethic of self-emptying attention, what accounts for her appeal, especially among women writers? This book tells the story of some of Weil’s most dedicated—and at points surprising—literary conversation partners, exploring why writers with varied political and religious commitments have found her thought and life so resonant. Cynthia R. Wallace considers authors who have devoted decades of attention to Weil, such as Adrienne Rich, Annie Dillard, and Mary Gordon, and who have written poetic sequences or book-length verse biographies of Weil, including Maggie Helwig, Stephanie Strickland, Kate Daniels, Sarah Klassen, Anne Carson, and Lorri Neilsen Glenn. She illuminates how writing to, of, and in the tradition of Weil has helped these writers grapple with the linked harms and possibilities of religious belief, self-giving attention, and the kind of moral seriousness required by the ethical and political crises of late modernity. The first book to trace Weil’s influence on Anglophone literature, The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil provides new ways to understand Weil’s legacy and why her provocative wisdom continues to challenge and inspire writers and readers.

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268092917

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Simone Weil by Simone Weil Pdf

Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909–43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such disciplines as sociology, history, political science, religious studies, French studies, and women’s studies are often ignorant of or baffled by her philosophical investigations. In Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings, Eric O. Springsted presents a unique collection of Weil’s writings, one concentrating on her explicitly philosophical thinking. The essays are drawn chiefly from the time Weil spent in Marseille in 1940-42, as well as one written from London; most have been out of print for some time; three appear for the first time; all are newly translated. Beyond making important texts available, this selection provides the context for understanding Weil's thought as a whole. This volume is important not only for those with a general interest in Weil; it also specifically presents Weil as a philosopher, chiefly one interested in questions of the nature of value, moral thought, and the relation of faith and reason. What also appears through this judicious selection is an important confirmation that on many issues respecting the nature of philosophy, Weil, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard shared a great deal.