Discussions of Simone Weil

Rhees, Rush

ISBN 10: 0791444287 / ISBN 13: 9780791444283

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany, 1999

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As good as new, paperback, SUNY Series, xi, 200 pp., 15x22x1,4 cm , with bibliography, notes 1st printing, letterbox mail.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discussions of Simone Weil
• Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791444287
• ISBN 13: 9780791444283
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

A distinguished discussion of Weil's views on social philosophy, science, ethics, and religion.

The work of Simone Weil has not garnered the attention it deserves in the Anglo-American tradition. In this book, Rhees, the noted thinker trained by Wittgenstein, provides the most sustained critique to date of Weil's views on science and religion. In this decidedly Wittgensteinian spin on the philosophy of religion, Rhees' observations on the major themes in Weil's work-social philosophy, science, ethics, and religion-are presented. The book shows how Rhees wrestled with difficulties he found in the work of Weil, someone he held in the highest regard.

About the Author

Rush Rhees (1905-1989) taught at the University of Wales, Swansea, for twenty-six years and became Honorary Professor after his retirement. He is the author of Without Answers; Discussions of Wittgenstein; On Religion and Philosophy; Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse; and Moral Questions. D. Z. Phillips is Rush Rhees Research Professor at the University of Wales, Swansea, and Danforth Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, California. Mario von der Ruhr is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea.