The Notebooks of Simone Weil

ISBN-13: 9780415327718 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 656 str.

Simone Weil; Arthur Wills

Opis

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a defining figure of the 20th century - a philosopher, Christian, resistance fighter, anarchist, feminist, Labour activist and teacher. She was described by T.S. Eliot as a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of the saints. These are her notebooks.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Some Basic Features of Language and Communication. Words and Dictionaries. English Use and Usage. Social Conventions and English Use. American English Variations. Meaning and Signification.

O autorze

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a French philosopher, activist and thinker and one of the defining intellectual figures of the twentieth century.