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Author Yun, Suk-cha (Professor), author

Title Decreation and the ethical bind : Simone Weil and the claim of the other / Yoon Sook Cha
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2017

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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
Judith Butler
Maurice Blanchot
decreative ethics
ethical relationality
force
obligation
self-dispossession
subject dislocation
vulnerability
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 8, 2017)
Subject Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.
SUBJECT Weil, Simone, 1909-1943
Weil, Simone, 1909-1943 fast
Subject PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
RELIGION -- Ethics.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0823275280
9780823275281
9780823277087
0823277089