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Simone Weil

  • 14-12-2009 07:10PM
    #1
    Joycey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭


    Wondering if anyone on here has read any/much of her stuff? What did ye think of it?

    Someone is doing a reading group for Gravity and Grace next semester, wasnt going to do it because theres other stuff that I thought id be more interested in, but checked this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Weil, and almost definitely going to do it now id say. I really like the sounds of her from that article anyway.

    If anyone has any advice on something that might be a good intro to her work (never read anything by her), or any internet lectures on any of her books itd be great if youd point me towards it.

    Cheers


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  • #2
    ocianain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭ocianain


    Read her, Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks, powerful, powerful book. For a lack of a better word I would say her, SOUL seemed to leap off the page. The essay, Iliad Poem of Might, is the only rational argument against the death penalty I ever read. That this was written by a French Jewess who was more Catholic than most Catholics, but never entered the Church, only adds to the wonder.


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