Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-Denial by Athanasios, And Hein, Ruth (Translated By) Moulakis ISBN 13: 9780826211620

University of Missouri Press, 1998. Hardcover with dust jacket. G/G. Ex-library. Dust jacket is sliced so library markings show.

University of Missouri Press, February 1998. Hardcover. New. At the age of ten, Simone Weil suspected that the Versailles Treaty expressed the will to humiliate the defeated enemy. Some time later in a letter to the novelist Georges Bernanos, she marked this perception as the kindling of her political consciousness. According to professor Athanasios Moulakis, this 'element of hurt pride in Weil's fundamental experience, humiliation redeemed by humility, plays a prominent part in her thinking.' In <i>Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-Denial</i>, he examines Weil's political thought as an integral part of a lived philosophy, linking it to her epistemology, cosmology, and personal experience. Weil's principal merit, Moulakis maintains, 'lies in the rediscovery of the essentially dramatic rather than procedural quality of human existence.' He charts the shifts in her reform philosophy, from 'liberation' to 'taking root,' basing his study on her… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of Missouri. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!