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Simone Weil on Colonialism

An Ethic of the Other

Simone Weil on Colonialism( )
Author: Weil, Simone
Translator: Little, J. P.
Series title:After the Empire : The Francophone World and Postcolonial France Ser.
ISBN:978-0-7425-2282-4
Publication Date:Jan 2003
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $180.95
Book Description:

Twentieth-century French philosopher Simone Weil's complete writings on colonialism are collected and translated into English in this volume.

Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Indigenous Studies
Political Science / Imperialism
History / Europe / France
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.697 x 23.47 x 2.083 cm
Book Weight:0.45 Kilograms
Author Biography
Weil, Simone (Author)
Born in Paris, Weil came from a highly intellectual family. After a brilliant academic career at school and university, she taught philosophy interspersed with periods of hard manual labor on farms and in factories. Throughout her life she combined sophisticated and scholarly interests with an extreme moral intensity and identification with the poor and oppressed. A twentieth-century Pascal (see Vol. 4), this ardently spiritual woman was a social thinker, sensitive to the crises of modern humanity. Jewish by birth, Christian by vocation, and Greek by aesthetic choice, Weil has influenced religious thinking profoundly in the years since her death. "Humility is the root of love," she said as she questioned traditional theologians and held that the apostles had badly interpreted Christ's teaching. Christianity was, she thought, to blame for the heresy of progress. During World War II, Weil starved herself to death, refusing to eat while victims of the war still suffered. 020



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