Simone Weil?s Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins

Davis, Benjamin P.

ISBN 10: 1538171953 / ISBN 13: 9781538171950

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Simone Weil?s Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538171953
• ISBN 13: 9781538171950
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

"[A] strikingly original portrait." —Jessica Whyte, University of New South Wales

This book argues that Simone Weil's short life (1909-1943) is best understood as deeply invested in and engaged with the world around her, which she knew she would leave behind sooner rather than later if she took risks on the side of the oppressed. To present Weil first and foremost as a political philosopher, Benjamin Davis places her work in conversation with feminist philosophy, decolonial philosophy, and Marxism. Against the backdrop of Weil's commitments, Davis reads Weil into debates in contemporary Critical Theory. He argues that in the battles of today, we need to reconnect with Simone Weil's ethical and political imagination, which offers a critique of oppression as part of a deeper attention to the world.

About the Author

Benjamin P. Davis is a postdoctoral fellow in African American Studies at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Gilssant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics as well as of Simone Weil's Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins. With Kris F. Sealey, he is the co-editor of Creolizing Critical Theory: New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy.