Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy : Field Notes from the Margins
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1538171945
ISBN-13
9781538171943
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Rowman & Littlefield
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GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 17th, 2023
Print length
184 Pages
Weight
402 grams
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15.80 x 23.70 x 1.70 cms
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Davis demonstrates how Simone Weil’s Marxism challenges current neoliberal understandings of the self and of human rights. Explaining her related critiques of colonialism and of political parties, it presents Weil as a twentieth-century political philosopher who anticipated and critically responded to the most contemporary political theory.
This book argues that Simone Weil’s short life (1909–1943) is best understood as deeply invested in and engaged with the world around her, which she knew she would leave behind sooner rather than later if she took risks on the side of the oppressed. To present Weil first and foremost as a political philosopher, Benjamin Davis places her work in conversation with feminist philosophy, decolonial philosophy, and Marxism. Against the backdrop of Weil’s commitments, Davis reads Weil into debates in contemporary Critical Theory. He argues that in the battles of today, we need to reconnect with Simone Weil’s ethical and political imagination, which offers a critique of oppression as part of a deeper attention to the world.
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