Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy (Reframing Continental

Simone Weil and Continental PhilosophyAuthor(s): A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield International\nISBN-13: 9781786601315, 978-1786601315\nSynopsis\nSimone Weil is an often-overlooked thinker whose insights could radically reshape contemporary discourses on religion, nature, art, ethics, work, politics, and education. This collection of essays situates Simone Weils thought alongside prominent Continental thinkers and their philosophical concerns to show the ways in which she belongs tobut also stands outsidesome of the major streams of 'Continental discourse', including phenomenology, ethics of embodied disposition and difference, and post-Marxian political thought. For the first time in a major work, intersections between the ideas of Weil and figures such as Nietzsche, Berdyaev, Foucault, Blanchot, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Chrtien, Agamben, Fanon, and Rancire are closely examined. The vo.