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The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil - An Introduction (Paperback)
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The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil - An Introduction (Paperback)
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The French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943), a contemporary of
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, remains in every way a
thinker for our times. She was an outsider, in multiple senses,
defying the usual religious categories: at once atheistic and
religious; mystic and realist; sceptic and believer. She speaks
therefore to the complex sensibilities of a rationalist age. Yet
despite her continuing relevance, and the attention she attracts
from philosophy, cultural studies, feminist studies, spirituality
and beyond, Weil's reflections can still be difficult to grasp,
since they were expressed in often inscrutable and fragmentary
form. Lissa McCullough here offers a reliable guide to the key
concepts of Weil's religious philosophy: good and evil, the void,
gravity, grace, beauty, suffering and waiting for God. In
addressing such distinctively contemporary concerns as depression,
loneliness and isolation, and in writing hauntingly of God's
voluntary 'nothingness', Weil's existential paradoxes continue to
challenge and provoke. This is the first introductory book to show
the essential coherence of her enigmatic but remarkable ideas about
religion.
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