Beyond Power: Simone Weil and the Notion of AuthorityLexington Books, 1 gen 2008 - 199 pagine Beyond Power offers fresh ways to approach the burning political, religious, and scientific issues of our time. It also provides a compelling overview of the work of the great French philosopher Simone Weil, whom Albert Camus saw as "the only great mind of our time" and T. S. Eliot saw as "a woman of genius, a kind of genius akin to that of the saints." |
Sommario
Introduction and the Notion of Authority | 3 |
Authority in the Life of Simone Weil | 19 |
The Ultimate Authority God | 33 |
THE AUTHORITY OF DISCIPLINES AND INSTITUTIONS | 55 |
Religion | 57 |
Politics | 85 |
Science | 107 |
AUTHORITY IN PRACTICE | 129 |
Work | 131 |
Justice | 149 |
Education | 167 |
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Aeschylus affliction Alasdair MacIntyre Albert Camus analogy André Weil Antigone Archimedes attention authority aware beauty become blind Cahiers Simone called Cathars chapter Christ Christian church clarity comes consent Creon death Descartes desire divine effort essay everything evil experience feeling followed force freedom Gallimard gospel Greek Hannah Arendt Havel hope human idea implies inspiration Jeanne Hersch justice kind knowledge L'Enracinement labor light living London look Lord's Prayer madness Marx means mind mystics necessity Need for Roots Nineteen Eighty-Four notion obedience one's oneself oppression Paris Père Perrin perhaps philosophy physical Plato poetry political possible prayer question reality reason reflection religion religious says seen sense Simone Pétrement social society Sophocles soul Spanish Civil War spiritual story suffering T. S. Eliot things thinking thought tion transcendent truth universe Vaclav Havel Weil's word workers writing wrote