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Lädt ... Simone Weil (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)von Palle Yourgrau
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Simone Weil, legendary French philosopher, political activist, and mystic, died in 1943 at a sanatorium in Kent, England, at the age of thirty-four. During her brief lifetime, Weil was a paradox of asceticism and reclusive introversion who also maintained a teaching career and an active participation in politics. In this concise biography, Palle Yourgrau outlines Weil's influential life and work and demonstrates how she tried to apply philosophy to everyday life. Born in Paris to a cultivated Jewish-French family, Weil excelled at philosophy, and her empathetic political cons Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I admire Yourgrau's reasoned, sensible, down-to-earth approach to this much-studied young woman who died at 34, partly through voluntary starvation which made her too weak to fight the tuberculosis from which she suffered.
This book takes a serious look at Weil's thought as well as the facts of her life, and succeeds totally in not reducing her to her symptoms, and giving due consideration to the fact that they might not be symptoms at all, but rather her philosophy in action. ( )