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Simone Weil and the Intellect of Grace : An Introduction by Henry L. Finch and Henry Leroy Finch (2001, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-100826411908
ISBN-139780826411907
eBay Product ID (ePID)1111464
Product Key Features
Book TitleSimone Weil and the Intellect of Grace : an Introduction
Number of Pages190 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicWomen, General
GenreReligion, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorHenry L. Finch, Henry Leroy Finch
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.6 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-032607
Reviews"For the astute student of Weil's understandings and writings, this text will be most helpful. For the person who has never been introduced to the thoughts, works, and beliefs of Weil...it would serve well as a reference resource." -Anna Marie Kane, S.SJ, Catholic Library World, December 2001, "In this collection of essays, Finch treats the whole range of Weil's thought with incisiveness and originality .Finch's book is well-suited for those who are already familiar with Weil and who wish to see her thought examined along somewhat different lines than usual."--Religious Studies Review, "In this collection of essays, Finch treats the whole range of Weil's thought with incisiveness and originality....Finch's book is well-suited for those who are already familiar with Weil and who wish to see her thought examined along somewhat different lines than usual."-Religious Studies Review, "An exceptionally good addition to the growing scholarship concerned with the life and contribution of Weil. Finch's attention to Weil's religious thought proves to be thoroughgoing, perhaps because his academic commitments included in the teaching of courses in the history of religions as well as philosophy. His erudition in these religious traditions assures a close and convincing presentation of Weil as a religious thinker of and for the world." --Clare B. Fischer, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, March 2002, "An exceptionally good addition to the growing scholarship concerned with the life and contribution of Weil. Finch's attention to Weil's religious thought proves to be thoroughgoing, perhaps because his academic commitments included in the teaching of courses in the history of religions as well as philosophy. His erudition in these religious traditions assures a close and convincing presentation of Weil as a religious thinker of and for the world." -Clare B. Fischer, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, March 2002, "For the astute student of Weil's understandings and writings, this text will be most helpful. For the person who has never been introduced to the thoughts, works, and beliefs of Weil…it would serve well as a reference resource." -Anna Marie Kane, S.SJ, Catholic Library World, December 2001, "Understands Simone Weil more perfectly than most among the scores of writers in English who have tried to interpret her thought in the past thirty years. Finch...masterfully recounts with transparency what he sees in her work. The reader experiences one important philosopher, Finch, reading another, Simone Weil. The reader is rewarded by this over and over." -Richard H. Bell, The Journal of Religion, November 2001, "Understands Simone Weil more perfectly than most among the scores of writers in English who have tried to interpret her thought in the past thirty years. Finch...masterfully recounts with transparency what he sees in her work. The reader experiences one important philosopher, Finch, reading another, Simone Weil. The reader is rewarded by this over and over." --Richard H. Bell, The Journal of Religion, November 2001, "In this collection of essays, Finch treats the whole range of Weil's thought with incisiveness and originality….Finch's book is well-suited for those who are already familiar with Weil and who wish to see her thought examined along somewhat different lines than usual."-Religious Studies Review, "For the astute student of Weil's understandings and writings, this text will be most helpful. For the person who has never been introduced to the thoughts, works, and beliefs of Weil it would serve well as a reference resource." --Anna Marie Kane, S.SJ, Catholic Library World, December 2001
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal194
SynopsisAn analysis of the philosophical and religious thought of mystic, thinker and social critic, Simone Weil. Weil was a Marxist who experienced the relations of power between producing and ruling classes firsthand as a factory and field worker. She was an internationalist who felt that the fall of Paris was a great day for Indo-China and yet she wanted to fight for France. She was a mystic and self-styled Christian who refused to join the Church because of its intolerance and exclusivism. The scope of her thought is remarkable, and this volume seeks to cover it all: religion, politics, science, history and culture. What comes through strongly are Weil's power of analysis and criticism, her love of truth and hunger for justice, her commitment to nonviolence, and, most of all, her regard for everyone and everything marginalized or excluded by orthodoxies and establishments, whether colonized people or heresy., As a thinker, mystic and social critic, Simone Weil is one of the most extraordinary figures of the 20th century. She was a Marxist who experienced the relations of power between producing and ruling classes first hand as a field and factory worker. She was an internationalist who felt that the fall of Paris was a 'great day for Indo-China', and yet she wanted to fight for France. Camus called her social writings 'more penetrating and more prophetic than anything since Marx.' What comes through strongly in this book are Weil's power of analysis and criticism, her love of truth and hunger for justice, her commitment to non-violence, and, most of all, her regard for everyone and everything marginalized or excluded by orthodoxies and establishments, whether colonized people or heresy.>
LC Classification NumberB2430.W474F54 1999
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