The Death of Simone Weil: An Existential Phenomenological Study

Publication Type

Thesis

Year of Publication

2009

Author

Osmolska, Dominika

Academic Department

Psychology

Pages

244

Publisher

California Institute of Integral Studies

Place Published

San Francisco, CA

Work Type

Diss

Language

English

Advisor

Puhakka, Kaisa

Publish Dates

2009

Keywords

overview

Annotation

Osmolska labels her work a 'psychobiography' of Simone Weil. She uses what she calls an 'existential-phenomenological' approach, seeking to reconstruct Weil's world by minimizing the subject/object divide in an attempt to identify with Weil, leading to a greater, sympathetic knowledge of who she was and why she chose to do and say the things she did.