Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy ( 1 )

Publication series ：1

Author： Rozelle-Stone   A. Rebecca  

Publisher： Rowman & Littlefield International‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781786601339

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781786601315

Subject： B0 Philosophical Theory;B82 Ethics ( Moral Philosophy );B9 Religion;D0 Political Theory

Keyword： 宗教,政治理论,哲学理论,伦理学(道德哲学)

Language： ENG

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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.

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Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy

Contents

Introduction: Attending to the Outlaw

Part I: Transcendental and Embodied Crossings

1 Weil’s Boat: On Becoming and Being

2 “Strangely Surprised”: Maurice Blanchot on Simone Weil

3 Decreation and the Creative Act: Simone Weil and Nikolai Berdyaev

4 Recreating the Creature: Weil, Agamben, Animality, and the Unsaveable

Part II: Attentive Ethics

5 Attention and Expression: Prescriptive and Descriptive Philosophy in Weil and Merleau-Ponty

6 Levinas and Weil: Ethics after Auschwitz

7 Compassion, Consolation, and the Sharing of Attention

8 Simone Weil and the Problem of Fatigue

Part III: Emancipatory Politics

9 Simone Weil’s Analysis of Oppression: From La Boétie to the Neoliberal Present

10 The Training of the Soul: Simone Weil’s Dialectical Disciplinary Paradigm, A Reading alongside Michel Foucault

11 “To Love Human Beings insofar as They Are Nothing”: Deracination and Pessimism in Weil

12 Weil and Rancière on Attention and Emancipation

Bibliography

Index

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