Simone Weil

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Year of Publication

2005

Author

Lukacs, John

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

knowledge
science
truth
epistemology

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.