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Simone Weil: (Critical Lives)

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Simone Weil, legendary French philosopher, political activist and mystic, died in 1943 at a sanatoriumin Kent at the age of 34. During her brief lifetime, Weil was a paradox of asceticism and introversion, yet with a teaching career and active participation in politics. She was a contemporary of Simone de Beauvoir and admired by writers such as Albert Camus. Palle Yourgrau outlines Weil's life and work, and demonstrates how she tried to apply philosophy to everyday life. Her preoccupation with the worldwide oppression of the working class found expression in what she once called her magnum opus, On Oppression and Liberty. Following a powerful religious experience in 1937, Weil's writings took a mystic turn and her fascination for world religions became more explicit in her work. Simone Weil offers an engaging presentation of the human drama of Weil's life and philosophy.



About the Author :
Palle Yourgrau is the Harry A. Wolfson Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. His books include A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel And Einstein (2005).

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"a comprehensive philosophical reading - to my mind, the first - of Weil's work. A philosophy professor at Brandeis, Yourgrau is well equipped for the task . . . Yourgrau is a master at tracing the hyper-sanity within dense philosophical systems that appear, to the untrained, as madness . . . Yourgrau's scrupulous attention to Weil's thought is a gift . . . Paying this great philosopher the compliment of discussing her work in its own terms, Yourgrau has, for the first time, given the breadth of Weil's thought the expansive frame it deserves." - Chris Kraus, Los Angeles Review of Books
"[a] vivid presentation . . . Although her reasoning led to tragic results, Weil nonetheless did the world a service, and Yourgrau has done a service by explaining her." - First Things
"It is tempting to reduce a great mind to one's own limited categories, to show that geniuses have feet of clay, to use the ever-ready categories of psychology to make sense of what eludes us. Palle Yourgrau has resisted these temptations: he has rendered Simone Weil less opaque while respecting the mystery at the heart of every person. His goal was not to write yet another biography, adding minor details to an already well-researched life, but to let the reader encounter Weil's thinking. This he has achieved. He debunks three stereotypes typically applied to Weil: of an anorexic, a self-hating Jew, and a sexually repressed woman. Yourgrau's analysis of Weil's relationship to Judaism is probably his greatest and most controversial contribution." - French Studies


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781861897985
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Reaktion Books
  • Height: 130 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Series Title: Critical Lives
  • ISBN-10: 1861897987
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 03
  • Width: 200 mm


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