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Simone Weil and the politics of self-denial

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Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-Denial delivers what no other book on Weil has - a comprehensive study of her political thought. In this examination of the development of her thought, Athanasios Moulakis offers a philosophical understanding of politics that reaches beyond current affairs and ideological advocacy.

Simone Weil - philosopher, activist, mystic - unites a profound reflection on the human condition with a consistent and courageous existential and intellectual honesty manifest in the moving testimony of her life and her death. Moulakis examines Weil's political thought as an integral part of a lived philosophy, in which analysis and doctrine are inseparable from the articulation of an intensely personal, ultimately religious experience.

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.

Weil has been categorized a number of ways: as a saint and a near convert to Roman Catholicism, as a social critic, or as an analytic philosopher. Moulakis examines all aspects of Weil's thought in the indissoluble unity in which she lived them. This thorough investigation pursues the particular intellectual affiliations and the social and political experiential stimuli of Weil's work while simultaneously teasing out the timeless themes that her own timely analysis was intended to reveal.

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English
Pages
266

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Simone Weil and the politics of self-denial
1998, University of Missouri Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (237-254) and index.

Published in
Columbia, Mo

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.53/1/092
Library of Congress
JC261.W45 M6813 1998, JC261.W45M6813 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 266 p. ;
Number of pages
266

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL691675M
Internet Archive
simoneweilpoliti00moul
ISBN 10
0826211623
LCCN
97038830
OCLC/WorldCat
37813503
Library Thing
4583528
Goodreads
322961

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