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The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas

Name: The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226826608
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Contributors:

Robert Zaretsky

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Philosophy

Book Subcategory:

Philosophers, History & Surveys, Religious

Book Topic:

Modern

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Release Date:

2023-04-05

ISBN 13:

9780226826608

Weight:

0.61 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 5.60 x 0.48 inches

Pages:

200

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Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught philosophy to lycée students and organized union workers, fought alongside anarchists during the Spanish Civil War and labored alongside workers on assembly lines, joined the Free French movement in London and died in despair because she was not sent to France to help the Resistance.

Though Weil published little during her life, after her death, thanks largely to the efforts of Albert Camus, hundreds of pages of her manuscripts were published to critical and popular acclaim. While many seekers have been attracted to Weil's religious thought, Robert Zaretsky gives us a different Weil, exploring her insights into politics and ethics, and showing us a new side of Weil that balances her contradictions--the rigorous rationalist who also had her own brand of Catholic mysticism; the revolutionary with a soft spot for anarchism yet who believed in the hierarchy of labor; and the humanitarian who emphasized human needs and obligations over human rights. Reflecting on the relationship between thought and action in Weil's life, The Subversive Simone Weil honors the complexity of Weil's thought and speaks to why it matters and continues to fascinate readers today.

About the Author
Robert Zaretsky is the author of Boswell's Enlightenment; A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning; and Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment, among other books. A frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, he lives in Houston with his wife, children, and assorted pets.

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