The experience of affliction and the possibility of love in the life and thought of Simone Weil
Publication Type |
Thesis |
Year of Publication |
2001 |
Author |
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Academic Department |
Religious Studies |
Publisher |
McGill University |
Place Published |
Canada |
Work Type |
Ph.D. |
Language |
English |
Advisor |
Hall, Douglas John |
Keywords |
affliction (malheur) |
Annotation |
Athanasiadis discusses the major themes in Simone Weil’s work as they developed chronologically throughout her life, something, he argues, the majority of scholars writing on Weil have failed to do. Although he touches upon the central ideas arising from Weil’s life and developed in her thought, including but not limited to affliction, attention, war, power, force and justice, political theory, social oppression, decreation, suffering, mystical experience and her relationship to Christianity, the central focus of the thesis is her concepts of affliction and divine love. |