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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Finding Simone Weil in an Ecological Void -- Notes -- Part I Growing Roots: A Reading of Simone Weil -- 1 Mapping an Ethics of Decreation -- Contraries in Weil's Writings and Ideas -- Critiques and Defenses of Weil's Contradictions -- The Ethics of Balancing Contraries -- Linking the Natural and the Supernatural Through Decreation -- Decreative Contradiction in Ecological Ethics -- Notes |
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2 The Faculties -- The Faculty of Knowing -- The Faculty of Loving -- The Faculty of Willing -- Notes -- 3 The Power of Force -- Defining Force -- Force and Necessity -- Force and Necessity in the Anthropocene -- An Ethical Critique of Weil's Force -- Balancing Force -- The Impact of Necessity and Force On the Meaning of the Faculties -- The Necessity of Absurdity (Contra Knowing) -- The Necessity of Absence (Contra Loving) -- The Necessity of Suffering (Contra Willing) -- Notes -- 4 Attention and Mediation -- Attention: The Balance of Faculty and Force -- The Balance of Metaxu |
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Wisdom as an Open Mediation (Between Knowing and Absurdity) -- Loving God as an Open Mediation (Between Loving and Absence) -- Consent as an Open Mediation (Between Willing and Suffering) -- Notes -- God's Decreation -- Individual Decreation Versus Destruction -- The Action of Science (Via Wisdom) -- The Action of Art (Via Loving God) -- The Action of Work (Via Consent) -- Weilian Ethics -- Notes -- Part II Plato and the Environment -- 6 Contemporary Dualist Ecological Readings of Plato's Phaedrus -- Philosophical Responses and Readings of Phaedrus |
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The Way of Joy and the Way of Affliction -- Attention -- Expanding the Self -- Non-anthropomorphizing Recognition -- Notes -- 9 A Weilian-Inspired Ecological Ethics -- Expanding Ethics -- Human Dignity -- Potential Obstacles to a Weilian Ecology -- Justice Beyond Mere Humanism -- A Different Kind of Purity -- An Ecologically Ethical God -- Notes -- 10 Action in the Anthropocene -- Scientific Wisdom in the Anthropocene -- Artistic Love in the Anthropocene -- Consenting to Work in the Anthropocene -- Learning to Die as Actively Living -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book places the philosophy of Simone Weil into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns in the Anthropocene. For Simone Weil scholars and academics, as well as students and researchers interested in environmental ethics in departments of comparative literature, theory and criticism, philosophy, and environmental studies |
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Machine-generated record |
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781040021491 |
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1040021492 |
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