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Simone Weil's apologetic use of literature : her christological interpretations of classic Greek texts /
After an unexpected mystical experience, the philosopher Simone Weil (1909-43) read the Greek classics from a Christian perspective, as this original study shows. To the intellectual agnostics of her day she wanted to show that the classics they loved could only be fully understood in light of Chris...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | After an unexpected mystical experience, the philosopher Simone Weil (1909-43) read the Greek classics from a Christian perspective, as this original study shows. To the intellectual agnostics of her day she wanted to show that the classics they loved could only be fully understood in light of Christ. To the Catholics she wanted to demonstrate that Christianity is much more universal than they thought, since Greek culture already embodied the Christian spirit before the incarnation. of Christ. - ;Marie Cabaud Meaney looks at Simone Weil's Christological interpretations of the Sophoclean Antigo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191526473 0191526479 9780199212453 0199212457 |