Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Cover; Decreation and the Ethical Bind; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Note on Abbreviations and Translations Used; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Vulnerability of Precious Things: "La Personne et le sacré"; 2. Uncommon Measure: "L'Iliade ou le poème de la force"; 3. Stillness and the Bond of Love: Venise sauvée; 4. Unfinished Obligation: Venise sauvée and La Folie du jour; 5. The Extravagant Demand of Asking Nothing: Destitution and Generosity in "Autobiographie spirituelle" and La Connaissance surnaturelle; 6. Empty Petitions: The Last Letters of Simone Weil; Acknowledgments; Notes |
Summary |
A close reading of Simone Weil's philosophical and literary writings examining themes of ethical obligation, dispossession and vulnerability in relation to the works of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot and Judith Butler |
Analysis |
Emmanuel Levinas |
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Judith Butler |
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Maurice Blanchot |
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decreative ethics |
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ethical relationality |
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force |
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obligation |
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self-dispossession |
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subject dislocation |
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vulnerability |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 8, 2017) |
Subject |
Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.
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SUBJECT |
Weil, Simone, 1909-1943
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Weil, Simone, 1909-1943 fast |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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RELIGION -- Ethics.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0823275280 |
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9780823275281 |
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9780823277087 |
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0823277089 |
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