Simone Weil – Love and Language

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Year of Publication

1999

Author

Graczyk, Piotr

Editor

Gomez, Maria Guthmiller, Ann Kait, Stefan

Book

Paradigms And Contentions

Series Volume

7

Pages

1-11

Language

English

Series Title

IWM (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) Junior Visiting Fellows Conference

Keywords

faith
force
Iliad
language
love
necessity
reading
truth
war

Annotation

Graczyk identifies five relationships between faith and reason he says can be found in the history of Christian Europe. He discusses Weil in relation to the fifth: “Faith takes up the cause of reason” (p. 6). He begins with a brief discussion of ‘love and language’, then turns to consider Weil’s work on the Iliad, very briefly touching upon war, force, reading, necessity and truth.

url

http://www.iwm.at/publ-jvc/jc-07-03.pdf