Simone Weil’s Iliad: The Power of Words
Publication Type |
Journal Article |
Year of Publication |
2010 |
Author |
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Journal |
The Review of Politics |
Volume |
72 |
Number |
1 |
Pages |
79-96 |
Language |
English |
Keywords |
affliction (malheur) |
Annotation |
The authors read Weil’s “Iliad: The Poem of Force”, through the lens of her essay “The Power of Words”. In so doing they say their essay “seeks to bridge the metaphysical and spiritual world of Simone Weil with the Homeric world, suggesting that Weil provides us with a way of reading the Iliad by way of one of the central paradoxes that organizes her work: the power of words” (p. 81). They begin with a discussion of Weil’s dissertation “Science et perception dans Descartes” and her Lectures on Philosophy, paying particular attention to her concepts of reading, power, and necessity. They then turn back to her writing on the Iliad in light of their discussion, offering a fairly in-depth exposition including consideration of many other issues of central concern in her work such as attention, affliction, and justice arguing for the relevance of Weil’s work for contemporary political theory. |
url |
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231790363_Simone_Weil's_Iliad_The_Power_of_Words |