Simone Weil And Continental Philosophy (reframing Continental Philosophy Of Religion)
by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone /
2017 / English / EPUB
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Simone Weil is an often-overlooked thinker whose
insights could radically reshape contemporary discourses on
religion, nature, art, ethics, work, politics, and education. This
collection of essays situates Simone Weil’s thought alongside
prominent Continental thinkers and their philosophical concerns to
show the ways in which she belongs to—but also stands outside—some
of the major streams of 'Continental discourse', including
phenomenology, ethics of embodied disposition and difference, and
post-Marxian political thought. For the first time in a major work,
intersections between the ideas of Weil and figures such as
Nietzsche, Berdyaev, Foucault, Blanchot, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas,
Chr
Simone Weil is an often-overlooked thinker whose
insights could radically reshape contemporary discourses on
religion, nature, art, ethics, work, politics, and education. This
collection of essays situates Simone Weil’s thought alongside
prominent Continental thinkers and their philosophical concerns to
show the ways in which she belongs to—but also stands outside—some
of the major streams of 'Continental discourse', including
phenomenology, ethics of embodied disposition and difference, and
post-Marxian political thought. For the first time in a major work,
intersections between the ideas of Weil and figures such as
Nietzsche, Berdyaev, Foucault, Blanchot, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas,
Chrétien
étien, Agamben, Fanon, and Rancière
are closely examined. The volume is authored by an international
team of leading scholars in Weil studies and in contemporary
Continental philosophy of religion more broadly.
, Agamben, Fanon, and Rancière
are closely examined. The volume is authored by an international
team of leading scholars in Weil studies and in contemporary
Continental philosophy of religion more broadly.Simone Weil and Continental
Philosophy
Simone Weil and Continental
Philosophyis not only an unprecedented resource for
Weil scholars who seek to read her in broader (and more current)
philosophical terms, but also an important addition to the
libraries of scholars and students of Continental philosophy and
theology engaged in thinking about some of the most pressing
questions of our time.
is not only an unprecedented resource for
Weil scholars who seek to read her in broader (and more current)
philosophical terms, but also an important addition to the
libraries of scholars and students of Continental philosophy and
theology engaged in thinking about some of the most pressing
questions of our time.
