Simone Weil for the Twenty-First Century.

• Author: Springsted, Eric O.
• Place / Publishing House: Notre Dame : : University of Notre Dame Press,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations for Weil's Works -- A Brief Biography of Simone Weil -- PART I . PHILOSOPHICAL ANDTHEOLOGICAL THOUGHT -- CHAPTER 1 A Thoughtful Life -- CHAPTER 2 Mystery and Philosophy -- CHAPTER 3 The Nature of Grace: Incarnation and Crucifixion in Weil's Thought -- CHAPTER 4 Love and Intellect -- CHAPTER 5 "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine . . ." -- CHAPTER 6 Spiritual Apprenticeship -- CHAPTER 7 A Sacramental Understanding of the World -- PART I I . SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT -- CHAPTER 8 Beyond the Personal: Weil's Critiqueof Maritain -- CHAPTER 9 The Language of the Inner Life -- CHAPTER 10 "Thou Hast Given Me Room": Weil's Retheologization of the Political -- CHAPTER 11 The Need for Order and the Need for Roots: To Being through History -- CHAPTER 12 A Theory of Culture: Inspirationand Its Outworkings -- CHAPTER 13 Searching for a New Saint Benedict: Attention and the Formation of Community -- CHAPTER 14 Moral Clarity in War -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.