Simone Weil

ISBN-13: 9781861897985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 189 str.

Palle Yourgrau

Opis

Simone Weil, legendary French philosopher, political activist, and mystic, died in 1943 at a sanatorium in Kent, England, at the age of thirty-four. During her brief lifetime, Weil was a paradox of asceticism and reclusive introversion who also maintained a teaching career and an active participation in politics.In this concise biography, Palle Yourgrau outlines Weil s influential life and work and demonstrates how she tried to apply philosophy to everyday life. Born in Paris to a cultivated Jewish-French family, Weil excelled at philosophy, and her empathetic political conscience channeled itself into political engagement and activism on behalf of the working class. Yourgrau assesses Weil s controversial critique of Judaism as well as her radical re-imagination of Christianity following a powerful religious experience in 1937 in light of Plato s philosophy as a bridge between human suffering and divine perfection.In Simone Weil, Yourgrau provides careful, concise readings of Weil s work while exploring how Weil has come to be seen as both a modern saint and a bete noir, a Jew accused of having abandoned her own people in their hour of greatest need."