TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zaretsky,Robert
TI  - The subversive Simone Weil: a life in five ideas 
SN  - 9780226549330
U1  - 194 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Women philosophers
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Philosophy, French
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The force of affliction -- Paying attention -- The varieties of resistance -- Finding roots -- The good, the bad, and the godly -- Epilogue
N2  - "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"--
ER  -