Religious Metaphysics of Simone Weil

Joan Dargan is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at St. Lawrence University.

"This is a clear, well-written survey of Simone Weil's philosophy, which is faithful to her spirit and should serve as a valuable guide. Time is already showing how many crossing points of modern ideas there are in her work, and how many places where the future may open up out of her ideas. From the standpoint of contemporary religious thought, there is no more significant topic. This book has something of the standing of a good cornerstone or a likely standard work for any set of publications having to do with Simone Weil." — Henry Le Roy Finch, City University and Graduate Center"It makes available a classic study of Simone Weil's religious philosophy. It will substantially advance English-language scholarship on one of the great thinkers of our century. Simone Weil offers the only significant Christian Platonist mystical speculation in the twentieth century. The author presents her thought carefully and sensitively, but critically too, constantly asking whether she is being fully Christian, for example, in downplaying the historicity as opposed to the eternity of Christ, or his Resurrection in contrast with his Passion." — Martin Andic, The University of Massachusetts at Boston

• Series Editor's Preface Preface to the American Edition Acknowledgments Translator's Note Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Notion of Decreation 2. Attention and Desire 3. Energy, Motives, and the Void 4. Suffering and Affliction 5. The Experience of the Beautiful 6. Time and the Self 7. Non-Acting Action Conclusion Notes Chronological Table Suggested Reading Author Index Subject Index