LEADER 03429nam 22006971 450 001 9910955305003321 005 20150415094854.0 010 $a9780857727664 010 $a0857727664 010 $a9780755624089 010 $a0755624084 010 $a9780857736796 010 $a0857736795 024 7 $a10.5040/9780755624089 035 $a(CKB)3710000000468714 035 $a(EBL)4054799 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001544970 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16135478 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001544970 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12130798 035 $a(PQKB)11336352 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4054799 035 $a(OCoLC)919432524 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09265611 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9780755624089BC 035 $a(Perlego)919705 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000468714 100 $a20200605d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe religious philosophy of Simone Weil $ean introduction /$fLissa McCullough 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cI.B. Tauris,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (183 p.) 225 1 $a[Library of Modern Religion] 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781780767963 311 08$a178076796X 311 08$a9781780767956 311 08$a1780767951 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index. 327 $aReality and contradiction -- The paradox of desire -- God and the world -- Necessity and obedience -- Grace and decreation -- Conclusion : Weil's theological coherence. 330 8 $aThe French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943), a contemporary of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, remains in every way a thinker for our times. She was an outsider, in multiple senses, defying the usual religious categories: at once atheistic and religious; mystic and realist; sceptic and believer. She speaks therefore to the complex sensibilities of a rationalist age. Yet despite her continuing relevance, and the attention she attracts from philosophy, cultural studies, feminist studies, spirituality and beyond, Weil's reflections can still be difficult to grasp, since they were expressed in often inscrutable and fragmentary form. Lissa McCullough here offers a reliable guide to the key concepts of Weil's religious philosophy: good and evil, the void, gravity, grace, beauty, suffering and waiting for God. In addressing such distinctively contemporary concerns as depression, loneliness and isolation, and in writing hauntingly of God's voluntary 'nothingness', Weil's existential paradoxes continue to challenge and provoke. This is the first introductory book to show the essential coherence of her enigmatic but remarkable ideas about religion. 410 0$aLibrary of modern religion. 606 $aJewish women philosophers$zFrance$y20th century 606 $aPhilosophy and religion 606 $a20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000$2BIC 615 0$aJewish women philosophers 615 0$aPhilosophy and religion. 615 7$a20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000. 676 $a210 676 $a210.92 700 $aMcCullough$b Lissa$01798281 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955305003321 996 $aThe religious philosophy of Simone Weil$94340948 997 $aUNINA