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An analysis of the philosophical and religious thought of mystic, thinker and social critic, Simone Weil. Weil was a Marxist who experienced the relations of power between producing and ruling classes firsthand as a factory and field worker. She was an internationalist who felt that the fall of Paris was a "great day for Indo-China" and yet she wanted to fight for France. She was a mystic and self-styled Christian who refused to join the Church because of its intolerance and exclusivism. The scope of her thought is remarkable, and this volume seeks to cover it all: religion, politics, science, history and culture. What comes through strongly are Weil's power of analysis and criticism, her love of truth and hunger for justice, her commitment to nonviolence, and, most of all, her regard for everyone and everything marginalized or excluded by orthodoxies and establishments, whether colonized people or heresy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #256745 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 177 pages

Review
"...this text will be most helpful [and] it would serve well as a reference resource." -- Catholic Library World, December 2001

"An exceptionally good addition to the scholarship concerned with Weil...Finch's attention to Weil's religious thought proves to be thoroughgoing." -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion, March 2002

"Understands Weil more perfectly than most...Finch masterfully recounts...what he sees in her work...Reader's rewarded over and over." -- The Journal of Religion, November 2001