TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The subversive Simone Weil : a life in five ideas
A1  - Zaretsky, Robert, 1955- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5498236
AB  - "Simone Weil is one of the most challenging and yet beguiling thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a highly charged mystical current that runs through her life and works that seems almost timeless. And yet Weil was a keen observer of the modern condition, coming of age as she did during the 1930s. Amid the recurrent indignities and inhumanities of modern life, she wondered what is to become of the precious space we have for grace, for friendship, and for truth? One of our most astute historians of existentialism, Robert Zaretsky shifts his attention to the utterly original Simone Weil with this new book. Taking up the central elements of her philosophy-affliction, attention, resistance, roots, and spirituality-he explores how they animated her life, and how they might animate ours"--
SN  - 9780226549330 kovakantinen
KW  - Weil, Simone, : 1909-1943.
KW  - Weil, Simone, : 1909-1943
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Women philosophers : France : Biography.
KW  - Philosophy, French : 20th century.
KW  - Philosophy, French
KW  - Women philosophers
KW  - France
ER  -