Simone Weil
Publication Type |
Book Chapter |
Year of Publication |
2005 |
Author |
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Editor |
Malvasi, Mark G. Nelson, Jeffrey O. |
Book |
Remembered Past : John Lukacs on History, Historians, and Historical Knowledge: A Reader |
Pages |
376-85 |
Publisher |
ISI Books |
Place Published |
Wilmington, Delaware |
Language |
English |
Chapter |
42 |
Keywords |
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Annotation |
Lukacs begins his reflections on Weil by describing her as ‘incarnating resistance’, arguing she resisted a number of modern trends in the thinking of her day, including the work of Marx, Comte, Darwin, Freud and Einstein. Overall, the essay centres on Weil’s epistemology. It concludes with Lukacs pointing out what he feels to be crucial and dramatic differences between Weil’s stance as a ‘radical reactionary’ and the views of the public and neoconservatives in the world today. |