The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil

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Beschreibung

The French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943), a contemporary of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, remains in every way a thinker for our times. She was an outsider, in multiple senses, defying the usual religious categories: at once atheistic and religious; mystic and realist; sceptic and believer. She speaks therefore to the complex sensibilities of a rationalist age. Yet despite her continuing relevance, and the attention she attracts from philosophy, cultural studies, feminist studies, spirituality and beyond, Weil's reflections can still be difficult to grasp, since they were expressed in often inscrutable and fragmentary form. Lissa McCullough here offers a reliable guide to the key concepts of Weil's religious philosophy: good and evil, the void, gravity, grace, beauty, suffering and waiting for God. In addressing such distinctively contemporary concerns as depression, loneliness and isolation, and in writing hauntingly of God's voluntary 'nothingness', Weil's existential paradoxes continue to challenge and provoke. This is the first introductory book to show the essential coherence of her enigmatic but remarkable ideas about religion.

Über den Autor

Lissa McCullough is Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at California State University Dominguez Hills, USA.

Zusammenfassung

This is the first introductory book to show the essential coherence of Simone Weil's enigmatic but remarkable ideas about religion.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations and Textual Notes
Introduction
Biographical Groundings
Reading Simone Weil
1 / Reality and Contradiction
Reality: The Irreducible
Truth and Affliction
The Role of Attention
The Negative Role of Will
The Value of Contradiction
Right Use of Dogma
2 / The Paradox of Desire
We Desire the Good
The Good Is Absent
The Good Is a Nothingness
Detachment of Desire
Waiting for God
The Earthly Criterion
(Not) To Speak of Holy Things
3 / God and the World
Creation as Withdrawal
The Absent God
"Original Sin"
The Self-Emptying God
Crucifixion as Redemption
Supernatural Harmony
4 / Necessity and Obedience
Abdication to Necessity
Providence
Beauty
Suffering
Necessity: Root of Beauty and Suffering
Obedience of Matter: Gravity
Obedience of Spirit: Grace
Amor Fati
5 / Grace and Decreation
Sin Says "I"
Grace Decreates the "I"
Nothingness: The Humility of God
Heaven and Hell
Transparence
Compassion
Action as Incarnation
6 / Conclusion: Weil's Theological Coherence
Background Theological Influences
Dialectic of Nature and Grace
God Beyond Good and Evil
Weil's Anonymous Christianity
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781780767963
ISBN-10:	178076796X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	McCullough, Lissa
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Lissa McCullough
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.07.2014
Gewicht:	0,349 kg