The subversive Simone Weil : (Record no. 654191)
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fixed length control field | 01508cam a22001938i 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 9780226549330 |
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 194 |
Item number | ZAR.S |
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Source of Number | Colon Classification |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
Personal name | Zaretsky, Robert, |
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | The subversive Simone Weil : |
Sub Title | a life in five ideas / |
Statement of responsibility, etc | Robert Zaretsky. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Place of publication | Chicago: |
Name of publisher | University of Chicago Press, |
Year of publication | 2021 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Number of Pages | 181pages ; |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
Formatted contents note | The force of affliction -- Paying attention -- The varieties of resistance -- Finding roots -- The good, the bad, and the godly -- Epilogue. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc | "Simone Weil is one of the most challenging and yet beguiling thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a highly charged mystical current that runs through her life and works that seems almost timeless. And yet Weil was a keen observer of the modern condition, coming of age as she did during the 1930s. Amid the recurrent indignities and inhumanities of modern life, she wondered what is to become of the precious space we have for grace, for friendship, and for truth? One of our most astute historians of existentialism, Robert Zaretsky shifts his attention to the utterly original Simone Weil with this new book. Taking up the central elements of her philosophy-affliction, attention, resistance, roots, and spirituality-he explores how they animated her life, and how they might animate ours"-- |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Women philosophers |
Geographic subdivision | France |
Form subdivision | Biography. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Philosophy, French |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | Reference |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home Library | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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International Centre for Marxian Studies & Research | International Centre for Marxian Studies & Research | Reference | 10/08/2022 | 194 ZAR.S | CMS2465 | 10/08/2022 | Reference |