Thinking Nothing: Simone Weil’s Cosmology

Publication Type

Thesis

Year of Publication

2005

Author

Radzins, Inese

Academic Department

Theology

Pages

178

Publisher

Vanderbilt University

Place Published

Nashville

Work Type

Ph.D.

Language

English

Keywords

Christianity
cosmology
creation
decreation
Plato
trinity

Annotation

As indicated in the title, this dissertation is an exploration of Weil’s cosmology. It begins with a discussion of Greek as compared to modern western cosmology, and then goes on to look at two common interpretations of Plato’s Timaeus, followed by a presentation of Weil’s interpretation. Radzins next considers Weil’s notion of ‘artistic creation’ in some depth. The dissertation concludes with a discussion of what Radzins labels Weil’s “Trinitarian cosmology”.