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Simone Weil's apologetic use of literature : her Christological interpretations of ancient 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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Meaney, Marie Cabaud
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Collection:Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Abbreviations; 1. Simone Weil and the Classics; 2. Simone Weil and Apologetics; 3. Simone Weil as Apologist; 4. Antigone and the Moral Law: Glimpses of the Supernatural; 5. Tableau de l'absence de Dieu-A Modern Interpretation of the Iliad; 6. Prometheus Bound-An Apologetics of the Cross; 7. Electra-Waiting on God; 8. Conclusion: Simone Weil-An Apologist of the Supernatural; Appendix: References to Ancient Greek Texts in the Works of Simone Weil; Bibliography; Index