Explores the predominant themes in the work of Albert Camus and what they reveal about his character, portraying the author as a clear-eyed moralist who favored principled, if ultimately hopeless, rebellion.
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Explores the predominant themes in the work of Albert Camus and what they reveal about his character, portraying the author as a clear-eyed moralist who favored principled, if ultimately hopeless, rebellion.
Explores the predominant themes in the work of Albert Camus and what they reveal about his character, portraying the author as a clear-eyed moralist who favored principled, if ultimately hopeless, rebellion.
Explores the predominant themes in the work of Albert Camus and what they reveal about his character, portraying the author as a clear-eyed moralist who favored principled, if ultimately hopeless, rebellion.
"Simone Weil is one of the most challenging and yet beguiling thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a highly charged mystical current that runs through her life and works that seems almost timeless. And yet Weil was a keen observer of the modern condition, coming of age as…
Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught philosophy to lycee stude…
"Simone Weil is one of the most challenging and yet beguiling thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a highly charged mystical current that runs through her life and works that seems almost timeless. And yet Weil was a keen observer of the modern condition, coming of age as…
"Simone Weil is one of the most challenging and yet beguiling thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a highly charged mystical current that runs through her life and works that seems almost timeless. And yet Weil was a keen observer of the modern condition, coming of age as…
The force of affliction -- Paying attention -- The varieties of resistance -- Finding roots -- The good, the bad, and the godly -- Epilogue. "Simone Weil is one of the most challenging and yet beguiling thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a highly charged mystical curre…
"Simone Weil is one of the most challenging and yet beguiling thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a highly charged mystical current that runs through her life and works that seems almost timeless. And yet Weil was a keen observer of the modern condition, coming of age as…
"Simone Weil is one of the most challenging and yet beguiling thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a highly charged mystical current that runs through her life and works that seems almost timeless. And yet Weil was a keen observer of the modern condition, coming of age as…
Frail happiness: an essay on Rousseau
by Todorov, Tzvetan, Scott, John T., Zaretsky, Robert
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When Empires Collide is a history of the famous encounter between the French philosopher Denis Diderot and his patron, Empress Catherine II of Russia, in 1773. The book begins many years earlier and traces the life of Diderot and Catherine in alternating chapters, painting a viv…