Why Antigone Was Right After All: Simone Weil’s Mystical Hermeneutics
Publication Type |
Book Chapter |
Year of Publication |
2001 |
Author |
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Editor |
Butterworth, Emily Robson, Kathryn |
Book |
Shifting Borders: Theory and Identity in French Literature |
Series Volume |
12 |
Pages |
123-38 |
Publisher |
Peter Lang |
Place Published |
Oxford |
Language |
English |
Series Title |
Modern French Identities |
Keywords |
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Annotation |
Cabaud Meaney defends Weil’s interpretation of Sophocles’ Antigone, defending it against those who would ignore or dismiss it. She offers an in-depth discussion of Weil’s views on justice moving beyond her work on Antigone to draw on a broad range of her religious and political thought. While never denying the ‘anachronistic Christian mystical’ nature of Weil’s interpretation, Cabaud goes on to argue that such an interpretation may well be “more adequate to modern times than others” (p. 138). |