Uprooting And Integration In The Writings Of Simone Weil
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Uprooting And Integration In The Writings Of Simone Weil
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Author : Betty McLane-Iles
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1987
Uprooting And Integration In The Writings Of Simone Weil written by Betty McLane-Iles and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
This interdisciplinary study reviews the entirety of Simone Weil's writings on philosophy, history, science, religion, language, folklore and literature in order to give a total perspective of Weil's extensive contributions to twentieth-century thought. In each of these fields, the forces of uprooting and integration move towards a resolution of the problem of estrangement. The extent of Weil's study of the problem of alienation has long been underestimated and so has the value of her contributions. Among these were her role in the formulation of modern existentialist philosophies, her involvement with the crisis of determinism and her refusal of discontinuous forms of probability that had led to quantum mechanics, her denunciation of colonial policies and the bureaucratization of power and labor, and her search for original meaning in language, mythology and poetic expression. This study is an exploration of each of these areas in Weil's writings and the contribution of each to the dialectical power of the forces of uprooting and integration.
A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn From Simone Weil S Life And Writings
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Author : Helen E. Cullen
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2017
A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn From Simone Weil S Life And Writings written by Helen E. Cullen and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Philosophy categories.
A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil’s Life & Writings situates Weil’s thought in the time between the two world wars through which she lived, and traces Weil’s consistent conception of a mind-body dualism in the Cartesian sense to a dualism that places the mind within a carnal part of the soul and establishes an eternal part of the soul as the essence of human beings. Helen Cullen argues that in Weil’s early conception of human nature, her Cartesian conception of perception already shows a glimpse of the eternal. Weil’s dualistic conception also forms the basis of her political analysis of the left of her time, and through working in factories and in the fields, she develops a conception of labour as a theory of “action” and “work with a method.” Weil was influenced by leading thinkers of her time, prompting her to do an analysis of current scientific theories. Cullen argues that Weil’s analysis of Christianity, already present in Greek philosophy, shows us a theory of “identical thought” inherited from the East (India and China) and brought forth by peoples around Israel. This theory leads to Weil’s analysis, developed in The Need for Roots, of how we’ve been uprooted through colonization and how we can grow roots in a free local society (both rural and urban).
Simone Weil And The Politics Of Self Denial
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Author : Athanasios Moulakis
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 1998
Simone Weil And The Politics Of Self Denial written by Athanasios Moulakis and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Because it is impossible to distinguish Weil's life from her thought, her writings cannot be understood properly without linking them to her life and character. By situating Weil's political thought within the context of the intellectual climate of her time, Moulakis connects it also to her epistemology, her cosmology, and her personal experience.
Simone Weil S The Iliad Or The Poem Of Force
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Author : Simone Weil
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2003
Simone Weil S The Iliad Or The Poem Of Force written by Simone Weil and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Fiction categories.
Simone Weil, a brilliant young teacher, philosopher, and social activist, wrote the essay, The 'Iliad' or the Poem of Force at France at the beginning of World War II. Her profound meditation on the nature of violence provides a remarkably vivid and accessible testament of the Greek epic's continuing relevance to our lives. This celebrated work appears here for the first time in a bilingual version, based on the text of the authoritative edition of the author's complete writings. An introduction discusses the significance of the essay both in the evolution of Weil's thought and as a distinctively iconoclastic contribution to Homeric studies. The commentary draws on recent interpretations of the Iliad and examines the parallels between Weil's vision of Homer's warriors and the experiences of modern soldiers.
Writing As Resistance
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Author : Rachel Feldhay Brenner
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Writing As Resistance written by Rachel Feldhay Brenner and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this moving account of the life, work, and ethics of four Jewish women intellectuals in the world of the Holocaust, Rachel Feldhay Brenner explores the ways in which these women sought to maintain their faith in humanity while aware of intensifying destruction. She argues that through their written responses of autobiographical self-assertion, Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum resisted the Nazi terror in ways that defy its horrifying dehumanization. Personal identity crises engendered the intellectual-spiritual acts of autobiographical self-searching for each of these women. About to become a nun in 1933, Edith Stein embarked on her autobiography as a daughter of a Jewish family. Fleeing France and deportation in 1942, Simone Weil examined her inner struggle with faith and the Church in her "Spiritual Autobiography." Hiding for more than two years in the attic, Anne Frank poignantly confided in her diary about her efforts to become a better person. Having volunteered as a social worker in Westerbork, Etty Hillesum searched her soul for love in the reality of terror. In each case, autobiographical writing becomes an act of defiance that asserts humanity in a dehumanized/dehumanizing world. By focusing on the four women's accomplishments as intellectuals, writers, and thinkers, Brenner's account liberates them from other posthumous treatments that depict them as symbols of altruism, sanctity, and victimization. Her approach also elucidates the particular predicament of Western Jewish intellectuals who trusted the ideals of the Enlightenment and believed in human fellowship. While suffering the terror of physical annihilation decreed by the Final Solution, these Jews had to contend with their exclusion from the world that they considered theirs. On yet another level, this study of four extraordinary life stories contributes to a deeper understanding of the postwar development of ethical, theological, and feminist thought. In showing concern about a world that had ceased to care for them, Stein, Weil, Frank, and Hillesum demonstrated that the meaning of human existence consisted in the responsibility for the other, in the protection of the suffering God, in the primary value of relatedness through empathy. Arguing that their ethical tenets anticipated the thought of such postwar thinkers as Levinas, Fackenheim, Tillich, Arendt, and Nodding, Brenner proposes that the breakup of the humanist tradition of the Enlightenment in the Holocaust engendered the postwar exploration of humanist potential in self-givenness to the other.
Reader S Guide To Women S Studies
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Author : Eleanor Amico
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1998-03-20
Reader S Guide To Women S Studies written by Eleanor Amico and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-20 with Reference categories.
The Reader's Guide to Women's Studies is a searching and analytical description of the most prominent and influential works written in the now universal field of women's studies. Some 200 scholars have contributed to the project which adopts a multi-layered approach allowing for comprehensive treatment of its subject matter. Entries range from very broad themes such as "Health: General Works" to entries on specific individuals or more focused topics such as "Doctors."
Philosophy For Darker Times
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Author : Noel Boulting
language : en
Publisher: Ethics International Press
Release Date : 2023-11-25
Philosophy For Darker Times written by Noel Boulting and has been published by Ethics International Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-25 with Philosophy categories.
This important new study examines the work of Simone Weil; French mystic, social philosopher, and activist in the French Resistance in the Second World War. Weil’s posthumously published works had a major influence on French and English social thought. Philosophy for Darker Times relates Weil’s insights to specific significant issues in our own time.
Simone Weil
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Author : Christopher Frost
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Release Date : 1998-05-21
Simone Weil written by Christopher Frost and has been published by SAGE Publications Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book provides a unique presentation of Simone Weilʹs life, work, and her contributions to feminist thought. Long before postmodern or deconstructionist ideas became current, Weil was concerned with recognizing the absence of consistency and the continual presence of reversals and contradictions in life. The struggle to clarify her "reading" of reality and her perceptions of meaning was an ongoing one and she challenged contemporary views on complex issues such as human nature, good and evil, divinity, and truth. In this introduction to Simone Weilʹs ideas, and the political and intellectual circumstances of her work, the authors make Weilʹs complex and at times elusive ideas accessible to readers. They offer their own interpretation of her work and delineate how Weilʹs ideas evolved, while providing compelling excerpts from Weilʹs writings to let her speak for herself. Her work offers a voice for those segments of society that are generally underrepresented, misrepresented, or totally silent in conventional historical and philosophical writings. -- Back cover.
Women Classical Scholars
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Author : Rosie Wyles
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Women Classical Scholars written by Rosie Wyles and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
La 4e de couverture indique : "the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship."
Epea Pteroenta
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Author : Michael Reichel
language : en
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Release Date : 2002
Epea Pteroenta written by Michael Reichel and has been published by Franz Steiner Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Die Beitrage dieses Sammelbandes reprasentieren ein breites Spektrum von Themen und methodischen Ansatzen der aktuellen Homerforschung: Sprachwissenschaft, Mythengeschichte, Narratologie, Intertextualitatsforschung, Gender Studies, Oral-Poetry-Forschung, alexandrinische Homerphilologie, Homer-Allegorese, Homer-Rezeption (in der griechischen Tragodie, im antiken Roman, in der Dichtung der Renaissance etc.). (Franz Steiner 2002)