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Nevin - Simone Weil - U. North Carolina Press - 1991 - 1st Printing - Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Really nice copy with just very light wear”
- Narrative Type
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- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Type
- Academic History
- Subjects
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- Special Attributes
- 1st Printing, 1st Edition
- Features
- 1st Edition
- ISBN
- 9780807819999
- Book Title
- Simone Weil : Portrait of a Self-Exiled Jew
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Year
- 1991
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.8in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Philosophy
- Topic
- Women, Individual Philosophers, Jewish
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 13 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 504 Pages
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Over fifty years after her death, Simone Weil (1909-1943) remains one of the most searching religious inquirers and political thinkers of the twentieth century. Albert Camus said she had a "madness for truth." She rejected her Jewishness and developed a strong interest in Catholicism, although she never joined the Catholic church. Both an activist and a scholar, she constantly spoke out against injustice and aligned herself with workers, with the colonial poor in France, and with the opressed everywhere. She came to believe that suffering itself could be a way to unity with God, and her death at thirty-four has been recorded as suicide by starvation. This extraordinary study is primarily a topography of Weil's mind, but Thomas Nevin is persuaded that her thought is inextricably bound to her life and dramatic times. Thus, he not only addresses her thoughts and her prejudices but examines her reasons for entertaining them and gives them a historical focus. He claims that to Weil's generation the Spanish War, the Popular Front, the ascendance of Hitlerism, and the Vichy years were not mere backdrops but definitive events. Nevin explores in detail not only matters of continuing interest, such as Weil's leftist politics and her attempt to embrace Christianity, but also hitherto unexamined aspects of her life and work which permit a deeper understanding of her: her writings on science, her work as a poet and dramatist, and her selective friendships. The thread uniting these topics is her struggle to maintain her independence as a free thinker while resisting community such as Judaism could have offered her. Her intellectual struggles eloquently reveal the desperate isolation of Jews torn between the lure of assimilation and the tormented dignity of their communal history. Nevin's massive research draws on the full range of essays, notebooks, and fragments from the Simone Weil archives in Paris, many of which have never been translated or published. Originally published in 1991. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807819999
ISBN-13
9780807819999
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1064526
Product Key Features
Book Title
Simone Weil : Portrait of a Self-Exiled Jew
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Individual Philosophers, Jewish
Publication Year
1991
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Philosophy
Number of Pages
504 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
91-9784
Reviews
There is not only learning and the poise of doubt in the book; there is courage and a salutary sadness. George Steiner, New Yorker, I admire Nevin's book very much indeed. I think it remarkable, the best book on Simone Weil in English. Alfred Kazin, A rich, thorough, and welcome study of the intellectual, cultural, and religious histories that informed Weil's writing and thought. Library Journal, A rich, thorough, and welcome study of the intellectual, cultural, and religious histories that informed Weil's writing and thought.Library Journal, I admire Nevin's book very much indeed. I think it remarkable, the best book on Simone Weil in English.Alfred Kazin, There is not only learning and the poise of doubt in the book; there is courage and a salutary sadness.George Steiner,New Yorker
Copyright Date
1991
Lccn
91-009784
Dewey Decimal
194 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
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