The subversive Simone Weil : (Record no. 654191)

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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
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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