The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil

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  2. English
  3. PDF
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil

About this book

Exploring the philosophical writings of Simone Weil, this extensive work documents the key thinkers who influenced her political, philosophical and religious outlook. It also offers a critical analysis of her wide-ranging philosophical concepts through incisive and insightful essays, revealing how they connect throughout her writings to form an organic whole.

Part I explores Weil's boundary-crossing interests in radical politics, science, mathematics, history, and religious phenomena. Part II traces the intellectual history of Weil's own writings by mapping her most important philosophical influences including Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant, and Marx. Part III turns to the distinctive terms that tie Weil's body of thinking together: terms such as amor fati, attention, beauty, force, gravity and grace, receive full explication alongside important themes of justice, obedience, compassion, and method as they figure in her work.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil provides readers with clarifying and comprehensive coverage of Weil's ideas and writings, leading the reader through her expansive oeuvre alongside an overview of the critical literature.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2025
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781350341630
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. How to Employ This Handbook
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Part I: Simone Weil in Context
  11. Chapter 1: Simone Weil in Context
  12. Part II: Key Figures
  13. Chapter 2: Alain
  14. Chapter 3: Descartes
  15. Chapter 4: Eckhart
  16. Chapter 5: Francis of Assisi
  17. Chapter 6: John of the Cross
  18. Chapter 7: Kant
  19. Chapter 8: La Boétie
  20. Chapter 9: Marx
  21. Chapter 10: Nietzsche
  22. Chapter 11: Pascal
  23. Chapter 12: Plato
  24. Chapter 13: Rousseau
  25. Chapter 14: Spinoza
  26. Chapter 15: The Stoics
  27. Part III: Key Terms
  28. Chapter 16: Affliction
  29. Chapter 17: Amor Fati
  30. Chapter 18: Atheism
  31. Chapter 19: Attention
  32. Chapter 20: Beauty
  33. Chapter 21: Body and Matter
  34. Chapter 22: Compassion
  35. Chapter 23: Consent
  36. Chapter 24: Contradiction
  37. Chapter 25: Decreation
  38. Chapter 26: Detachment
  39. Chapter 27: Evil
  40. Chapter 28: Force
  41. Chapter 29: God
  42. Chapter 30: Gravity and Grace
  43. Chapter 31: Great Beast
  44. Chapter 32: Imagination and Illusion
  45. Chapter 33: Impersonality
  46. Chapter 34: Justice
  47. Chapter 35: Labor
  48. Chapter 36: Liberty
  49. Chapter 37: Literature
  50. Chapter 38: Mathematics
  51. Metaxu
  52. Chapter 39: Method
  53. Chapter 40: Money
  54. Chapter 41: Necessity and the Good
  55. Chapter 42: Obedience
  56. Chapter 43: Oppression
  57. Chapter 44: Order of the World
  58. Chapter 45: Power
  59. Chapter 46: Reading
  60. Chapter 47: Roots and Uprootedness
  61. Chapter 48: Science
  62. Chapter 49: Sexual Love and Friendship
  63. Chapter 50: Supernatural
  64. Chapter 51: Void
  65. Chapter 52: Waiting for God
  66. Chapter 53: Women
  67. Part IV: References
  68. Bibliography
  69. Contributors
  70. INDEX

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