Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Edited by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Attending to the Outlaw A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone / Part I: Transcendental and Embodied Crossings / 1. Weil's Boat: On Becoming and Being Philip Goodchild / 2."Strangely Surprised": Maurice Blanchot on Simone Weil Kevin Hart / 3. Decreation and the Creative Act: Simone Weil and Nikolai Berdyaev Lisa Radakovich Holsberg / 4. Recreating the Creature: Weil, Agamben, Animality & the Unsaveable Beatrice Marovich / Part II: Attentive Ethics / 5. Attention and Expression: Prescriptive and Descriptive Philosophy in Weil and Merleau-Ponty Kascha Semonovitch Snavely / 6. Levinas and Weil: Ethics after Auschwitz Robert Reed / 7. Compassion, Consolation, and the Sharing of Attention Stuart Jesson / 8: Simone Weil and the Problem of Fatigue A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone / Part III: Emancipatory Politics / 9: Simone Weil's Analysis of Oppression: From La Boétie to the Neoliberal Present Lissa McCullough / 10. The Training of the Soul: Simone Weil's Dialectical Disciplinary Paradigm, a reading alongside Michel Foucault Scott B. Ritner / 11. "To love human beings in so far as they are nothing": Deracination and Pessimism in Weil Anthony Paul Smith / 12. Weil and Rancière on Attention and Emancipation Sophie Bourgault

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• Authors: A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone, Rebecca A. Rozelle-Stone
• Assisted by: A Rebecca Rozelle-Stone (Editor), A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone (Editor), Rebecca A. Rozelle-Stone (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781786601322
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-132-2
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Reframing Continental Philosop; Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion; Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion