Simone Weil by Dunaway John (4 results)

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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ex Library. Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 139 pages, nice green cloth covers.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, fresh attractive copy, fine condition gray cloth. DUNAWAY, JOHN M., 1945- / SPRINGSTED, ERIC O. The beauty that saves: essays on aesthetics and language in Simone Weil. Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 1996, xvi, 229pp., . The Beauty That Saves, a collection of essays by many of the most prominent American and European scholars on Weil, begins with a foreword by well-known writer Vladimir Volkoff who discusses, in a very moving manner, "What Simone Weil Means to Me." An introductory essay by Eric O. Springsted highlights the general character of Weil's thought and introduces the specific problematic of this collection. The first section addresses the subject of Weil on language. A key to understanding Weil's aesthetic is grasping how she understood language and its various usages. From within that understanding is contained a point d'appui of her philosophical thought as a whole. Her universe of meaning, its hierarchies, its subjection to necessity, its mystical intimacies, is not something she simply wrote about, it is contained in the way she wrote., With Weil's language established, the second section deals with Weil's explicit reflections on aesthetics, including essays on her sacramental imagery, morality and literature, music, and her classical reading of tragedy. As these essays point out, her aesthetic demands a moral and religious reading of the universe. The third section presents a number of specific Weilan readings of art, where what has been discussed in previous essays receives concrete application and illustration through essays on Weil and Wallace Stevens, music, and Georges Bernanos. - CONTENTS: I. Simone Weil on language. Contradiction, mystery and the use of words in Simone Weil / Eric O. Springsted -- The Language of the marketplace and the language of the nuptial chamber: the theological significance of a distinction in the philosophy of language / Heinz Robert Schlette -- Simone Weil and the limits of language / J.P. Little -- The Nature of narrative in Simone Weil's vision of history: the need for new historical roots / Christine Ann Evans -- Trésor éparpillé: the treasure of scattered texts in works by René Char and Simone Weil / Joan Dargan - II. Simone Weil on aesthetic theory. Sacramental tension: divine transcendence and finite images in Simone Weil's literary imagination / Thomas Werge -- Simone Weil on morality and literature / John M. Dunaway -- The Tragic poetics of Simone Weil / Katherine T. Brueck -- Simone Weil and Music / Michel Sourisse. - III. Weilian interpretations of art. Simone Weil and Wallace Stevens: the notion of decreation as subtext in 'An Ordinary evening in New Haven' / James R. Lindroth -- The Character of Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera / Diogenes Allen -- The Love of god and man's suffering: Simone Weil and Georges Bernanos / William S. Bush -- Simone Weil and Shakespeare's fools / Martin Andic. 9780865545007 ISBN 0865545006. …