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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Simone Weil"”.
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"""Deracinement/Enracinement"" Iin the writings of Simone Weil"
"The simple opposition implied by Simone Weil's own explicit usage of the terms ""deracinement/enracinement"" in some of her essays appearing in the collections entitled L'Enracinement, Ecrits historiques et politiques, and La Pesanteur et la Grace, leads the readers towards a false reduction of …
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Voiding Distraction: Simone Weil and the Religio-Ethics of Attention
My dissertation, "Voiding Distraction: Simone Weil and the Religio-Ethics of Attention," was motivated by my recognition of our contemporary culture of distractedness, which I thought was largely enabled by our idolization of technology and the attendant media delivered to the masses. Through …
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The Renunciation of God: Political Theology and Theological Resistance in Georges Bataille, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Simone Weil
… of Georges Bataille, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Simone Weil, to read this disparate constellation of writers as making up a loose theological movement, one that pushed for a resignification of theology’s central signs and whose importance has yet to be reckoned by theology itself. I begin by with …
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A mística, a serenidade e a espiritualidade: a fenomenologia hermenêutica de Heidegger, as experiências espirituais e a daseinsanálise
… de setecentos anos depois do Mestre Eckhart, Simone Weil, judia francesa do século XX, descreve um Encontro com Cristo que altera todo modo como o mundo se abre para ela desde então. A presença de Cristo em sua vida realiza uma profunda mudança no modo como a atenção se constitui. Para Weil, …
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Homiletics at the Threshold: Pope Benedict XVI's Invitation
… after the Second Vatican Council. The works of Simone Weil, a Jewish philosopher and mystic, are introduced into the conversation conducted at the threshold between cosmopolitanism and provincialism where contemporary Catholic preaching must take place if it is to be heard effectively today.
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«Η ανθρώπινη αξία ανάμεσα στο Ιερό, την Ευπάθεια και τη Διαλεκτική του Διαφωτισμού: Μια σύγκριση της Σιμόν Βέιλ, της Τζούντιθ Butler και της κριτικής των Τέοντορ Αντόρνο και Μαξ Χορκχάιμερ»
… αποκλίσεις ανάμεσα στη μεταφυσική προσέγγιση της Simone Weil, την πολιτική και ηθική θεωρία της Judith Butler και την κριτική ανάλυση των Theodor Adorno και Max Horkheimer. Κεντρικός άξονας της έρευνας είναι ο τρόπος με τον οποίο το υποκείμενο τοποθετείται ανάμεσα στην ιερότητα της ύπαρξης, τη …
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The Seer's Abacus
… the self so that there is room to add the other. Simone Weil, John Keats, Jack Spicer and Emily Dickinson suggest that the poet ought to renounce the self so as to offer up her own voice as a sacrifice to the world. The poet who hopes to speak for others must become no Body so that she can become …
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The Developmental Stages of Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: From Pacifism to a Justification of Force
Simone Weil had a short but distinguished career as a French intellectual. Writing mainly between the two European wars of the twentieth century, Weil is more widely accredited for her later spiritual work. This thesis seeks instead to discuss the political aspect of Weil’s writing so that her …
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The Destructive Nature of Suffering and the Liturgical Refashioning of the Person
… done through an examination of the theology of Simone Weil, Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain, and the medical literature that documents the role that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) plays in veterans' lives. Then I examine some recent work on liturgy and ethics to show how liturgy engages …
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The Importance of Attention in Morality An Exploration of Iris Murdoch’s Philosophy
… and developing key points through readings of Simone Weil, from whom Murdoch derives the idea of attention.
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Untimely meditations: female mysticism in medieval culture and modern scholarship
… von Balthasar) before juxtaposing the writing of Simone Weil and Anne Carson, which resonate with the removal or 'decreation' of self that form the foundation of the apophatic genre. Concluding with a survey of the so-called 'religious' or 'apophatic turn' within Continental philosophy and the …
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Form's Philosophy: Poetry and Moral Thinking in Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, and Geoffrey Hill
… Newman, T.H. Green, F.H. Bradley, I.A. Richards, Simone Weil, Theodor Adorno, Gillian Rose, and many others), I argue that their poetry and criticism should be seen as a substantial contribution to long-running debates about the nature of moral reflection in an increasingly secular age. The …
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Voices from the outside: Homeric exiles in twentieth-century French writing
… to a comparative study of two French women, Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff and their respective engagement with Homer’s Iliad. This chapter explores a notable development in the Homeric reconfiguration of the twentieth-century modern French exile. The chapter provides evidence of female …
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The Courage to Attune: The Promise of the Poetic for Naming the Experience of God in the Context of the Self-Other Relation
… Donne's love poetry (chapter two), compassion in Simone Weil's letters, essays, and notebooks (chapter three) and contemplation in Book X of Augustine's Confessions (chapter four). Throughout, close attention is paid to the interweaving of form and content in poetic speech, giving rise to a …