Introducción

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Year of Publication

2000

Author

Springsted, Eric O.
Weil, Simone

Book

Escritos esenciales

Series Volume

109

Pages

14-40

Publisher

Sal Terre

Place Published

Parcela

Language

Catalan

Series Title

Colección El Pozo de Siquem

Keywords

affliction (malheur)
love
oppression
self

Annotation

Springsted offers what he believes to be the element in Weil's thought, which both 'attracts and repels’, those who read her: "the sense she has of what the moral self is" (p. 12). He goes on to illustrate what he means by this through a brief examination and overview of her life, highlighting ideas of central importance in her writing including, but not limited to, affliction, love, and oppression, while defending her against those who would focus on what he describes as possibly 'unhealthy' and 'less than sensible' aspects of her thought.

Notes

Spanish translation of English work: Simone Weil: Writings Selected with an Introduction by Eric O. Springsted. Orbis, 1998.