Simone Weil and the Intellect of Grace

Finch, Henry Leroy; Martin Andric [Editor], Annie Finch [Foreword]

ISBN 10: 0826411908 / ISBN 13: 9780826411907

Published by Continuum, New York, 1999

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pp. 177. 8vo. Light shelfwear, dustjacket price clipped and slightly rubbed; very good+ in very good dustjacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Simone Weil and the Intellect of Grace
• Publisher: Continuum, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826411908
• ISBN 13: 9780826411907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
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  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

"As a thinker, mystic, and social critic, Simone Weil is one of the most extraordinary figures of the twentieth century. She was a Marxist who experienced the relations of power between producing and ruling classes firsthand 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. 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 concise book covers 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."--BOOK JACKET.

About the Author

Henry Leroy Finch taught philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College for twenty years and at Hunter College for sixteen years. He was the author of three books on Ludwig Wittgenstein and edited the papers of Eric Gutkind. He was one of the founders of the American Weil Society in 1970. He died in 1998.Martin Andiç is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.