The Power to Say I.Reflections on the Modernity of Simone Weil’s Mystical Thought

What precisely is at stake in Simone Weil’s shift to Christianity? Is it only the story of a modern agnostic intellectual discovering and reinventing an old religious tradition? What if, under the surface of that move, modernity itself is as much at stake? What if Weil’s mystical thought conceals a...

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Main Author: Kesel, Marc de 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Year: 2019, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 165-181
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Weil, Simone 1909-1943 / Christianity / Mysticism / I
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
Further subjects:B Mysticism
B Modernity
B Christianity
B Simone Weil
B Descartes
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