A Supernatural Use: Religion and Emancipation in the Thought of Simone Weil
Publication Type |
Thesis |
Year of Publication |
2004 |
Author |
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Academic Department |
Religion |
Pages |
343 |
Publisher |
The Claremont Graduate University |
Work Type |
Diss. |
Language |
English |
Keywords |
oppression |
Annotation |
Law examines Weil’s religious and political thought arguing Weil uses “religious ideas, primarily a religious anthropology…to serve a specifically philosophical purpose”. After raising the question of into which genre, political, religious or philosophical, Weil’s work falls, the dissertation moves on to look at and respond to three objections to Weil’s work found in the scholarly literature about her: Weil’s work is more religious than political, Weil’s political philosophy found in her later years is fundamentally flawed and finally “Weil’s political thought is an answer without a question”. |