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Simone Weil: An Anthology de Simone Weil

Simone Weil: An Anthology

Autor Simone Weil Editat de Sian Miles
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 noi 2005
Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century: a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. This anthology spans the wide range of her thought, and includes an extract from her best-known work 'The Need for Roots', exploring the ways in which modern society fails the human soul; her thoughts on the misuse of language by those in power; and the essay 'Human Personality', a late, beautiful reflection on the rights and responsibilities of every individual. All are marked by the unique combination of literary eloquence and moral perspicacity that characterised Weil's ideas and inspired a generation of thinkers and writers both in and outside her native France.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141188195
ISBN-10: 0141188197
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Simone Weil (1909-43) was a French political activist, mystic and a singular figure in French philosophy. She studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, obtained her agrégation (teaching diploma) in philosophy in 1931, worked at Renault from 1934 to 1935, enlisted in the International Brigades in 1936 and worked as a farm labourer in 1941. She left France in 1942 for New York and then London, where she worked for General de Gaulle's Free French movement. Most of her works, published posthumously, consist of some notebooks and a collection of religious essays. They include, in English, Waiting for God (1951), Gravity and Grace (1952), The Need for Roots (1952), Notebooks (two volumes, 1956), Oppression and Liberty (1958) and Selected Essays, 1934-1943 (1962).

Recenzii

“This is an excellent book by one of the world's leading Simone Weil scholars. Eric O. Springsted has gathered Simone Weil's writings that focus explicitly on her conception of philosophy and its relation to both value and the transcendent. In doing so, he has provided a conceptual framework for understanding Weil's oeuvre as a whole, which challenges readers to reinvestigate their views on the nature of philosophy and value.” —Mario Von Der Ruhr, senior lecturer, College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University 
 
 

“Springsted edits this collection of Simone Weil's works on her conception of philosophy, consisting of a short introduction and ten translated essays. . . . Though unpolished, these pieces offer substantive analysis and insight into key topics in philosophy, such as the nature of the discipline, value, personal identity, character, and morality. . . . An excellent resource for philosophers interested in metaphilosophy, metaethics, and free will.” —Library Journal

“ Springsted has selected several essays—some rather developed and others possibly drafts—that provide the reader with enough material to get a sense of ‘what she thought thinking is and ought to be and hence what she thought she was doing in writing all that she did.’ . . . Because the essays in this book capture her thinking within a very specific time period (1940-1943) and because many of their themes are related, the reader is able to get a certain sense of who she was and what she was about.” —CatholicBookReview.org
 
 

“[Simone Weil] was above all a thinker, and Eric O. Springsted has gathered a wonderful collection of 10 essays by her on just that. The essays are not merely Weil at her most speculative, but her reflections on the process of thinking itself. Taken together, they 'take up what she thought thinking is and ought to be and hence what she thought she was doing in writing all that she did.' In that alone, the book casts aside our habitual ways of remembering Weil and clears entirely fresh ground. . . . Each of the 10 essays is relatively short but packs a punch, as Weil’s writing tends to do. They were all written in the last three years of her life, from 1940 to 1943, a feverishly productive and intensely experimental time for Weil. She was living for the most part in Marseilles, where she had gone to work in the resistance after fleeing Paris, just as the Germans descended." —America
 

“Springstead’s passion for Weil and his extraordinary expertise in her multidisciplinary contributions to intellectual life make him uniquely qualified to edit this philosophical testament. . . . Some of the essays have been unavailable for years, and several are presented for the first time in this welcome assortment of philosophical literature. Those who are admirers of Weil will appreciate these classic texts and be inspired by the newer contributions.” —Catholic Library World
 
 

“In this welcome book, Springstead presents the philosophical thought of Simone Weil during the final three years of her life . . . All of the essays reveal both the interdisciplinary nature of Weil’s thought and the extent to which her way of philosophizing goes beyond the limits of academic philosophy.” —Choice
 
 

Cuprins

Introduction D. K. Levy  Notes on the Translation D. K. Levy and Marina Barabas  Part 1: Here below  Introduction to Part 1 D. K. Levy  1. Study for a declaration of obligations to the human being  2. Concerning syndicalism "Single, Apolitical, Mandatory"  3. Let's not start the Trojan War again  4. Legitimacy of the provisional government  5. What does the Occitanian inspiration consist in  6. Prelude to a declaration of duties toward the human being  7. Is there a Marxist doctrine?  8. Reflections on quantum theory  9. Morality and literature  10. Essay on the concept of reading  11. Some reflexions on the concept of value  12. This war is a war of religions  13. Are we fighting for justice?  14. Is the human person sacred?  Part 2: Mediation  Introduction to Part 2 D. K. Levy  15. Precondition of non-servile work  16. Reflections on the good use of school studies with a view to the love of God  17. Sketch of the "Commentary on Pythagorean texts"  18. Concerning the Pythagorean Doctrine  Part 3: Beyond the sky  Introduction to Part 3 D. K. Levy  19. Theory of Sacraments  20. Forms of the implicit love of God  i. Love of one’s neighbour  ii. Love of the order of the world  iii. Love of religious practices  iv. Friendship  v. Implicit love and explicit love  21. God's love and affliction.  Index

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An outstanding starting point for anyone seeking an introduction to Simone Weil’s philosophical thinking, and essential reading for more advanced students and scholars of Weil’s thought.