Simone Weil - A Very Short Introduction

A concise and lively overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. The breadth, poignancy, and prescience of Weil's philosophy has much to offer us in our times of personal, communal, political, and environmental crises.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Abbreviations


• List of illustrations


• 1: A life and death of attention


• 2: Greek inspiration


• 3: Labor and politics


• 4: Religion


• 5: Ethics


• 6: Beauty


• 7: Weil in the present and future


• References


• Further Reading

About the author

A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Dakota. She earned her B.A. at Birmingham-Southern College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Rozelle-Stone served as the Vice President (2012-2014) and then President (2014-2016) of the American Weil Society, and has authored and edited several works on Simone Weil, including The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later, Simone Weil and Theology, and Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy. Aside from Weil, her research interests include phenomenology, feminism, the ethics of attention, and the growing field of fatigue studies.

Summary

A concise and lively overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. The breadth, poignancy, and prescience of Weil's philosophy has much to offer us in our times of personal, communal, political, and environmental crises.

Product details

• Authors: A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone, A. Rebecca (Professor of Philosophy Rozelle-Stone, Prof A. Rebecca (Professor of Philo Rozelle-Stone
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2024
• EAN: 9780192846969
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284696-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Very Short Introductions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, RELIGION / Mysticism, mysticism, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Ethics and moral philosophy