First and Last Notebooks
Author: Simone Weil
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1498239196
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Author: Simone Weil
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1498239196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil
Author: Simone Weil
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 1135649235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSimone Weil (1909-1943) was a defining figure of the twentieth century; a philosopher, Christian, resistance fighter, anarchist, feminist, Labour activist and teacher. She was described by T. S. Eliot as 'a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of the saints', and by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time'. Originally published posthumously in two volumes, these newly reissued notebooks, are among the very few unedited personal writings of Weil's that still survive today. Containing her thoughts on art, love, science, God and the meaning of life, they give context and meaning to Weil's famous works, revealing an unique philosophy in development and offering a rare private glimpse of her singular personality.
Author: Ben Ehrenreich
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2020-07-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1640093540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLayering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.
Author: Simone Weil
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0268092915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909–43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such disciplines as sociology, history, political science, religious studies, French studies, and women’s studies are often ignorant of or baffled by her philosophical investigations. In Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings, Eric O. Springsted presents a unique collection of Weil’s writings, one concentrating on her explicitly philosophical thinking. The essays are drawn chiefly from the time Weil spent in Marseille in 1940-42, as well as one written from London; most have been out of print for some time; three appear for the first time; all are newly translated. Beyond making important texts available, this selection provides the context for understanding Weil's thought as a whole. This volume is important not only for those with a general interest in Weil; it also specifically presents Weil as a philosopher, chiefly one interested in questions of the nature of value, moral thought, and the relation of faith and reason. What also appears through this judicious selection is an important confirmation that on many issues respecting the nature of philosophy, Weil, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard shared a great deal.
Author: Simone Weil
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 149823920X
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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-02-20
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521008877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers new and accurate translations of a selection of Nietzsche's late writings.
Author: Robert Zaretsky
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2023-04-05
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0226826600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKnown 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.
Author: Ernest Rubinstein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-08-06
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1611477255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality reads major philosophers from the Western philosophical canon and beyond for the spirituality implicit in their metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and logic. Ernest Rubinstein revives for the modern reader the spiritual import of philosophy as an area of inquiry and study. Spirituality is understood as a lived orientation towards the sacred. The sacred is characterized as the source of all being and human wellbeing. Philosophy is presented as an avenue of approach to the sacred alternative to the western religious traditions. Philosophers treated include Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Emerson, William James, Bertrand Russell, and Simone Weil.
Author: Margaret Rose Thornton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 868
ISBN-13: 9780300116823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeticulously edited and annotated, Tennessee Williams's notebooks follow his growth as a writer from his undergraduate days to the publication and production of his most famous plays, from his drug addiction and drunkenness to the heights of his literary accomplishments.
Author: Robert Chenavier
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780268023737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Simone Weil Robert Chenavier explores the work of Simone Weil and demonstrates how she brought together spiritual life and the human struggle for solidarity.