Table of Contents

Part I. Readings: The Grammar of the Divine and the Human: 1. Simone Weil's concept of decreation; 2. The necessary non-existence of God; 3. God and concept-formation in Simone Weil; 4. The concept of reading and the book of nature; 5. Discernment and the imagination; 6. On the right use of contradiction according to Simone Weil; Part II. Readings Toward a Divine Humanity: 7. Rootedness: culture and value; 8. Simone Weil and the civilization of work; 9. Reading Simone Weil on rights, justice and love; 10. The spirit of Simone Weil's law; 11. Simone Weil on beauty; 12. Simone Weil and Antigone: innocence and affliction; 13. Simone Weil: Harbinger of a New Renaissance?

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This is an excellent treatment, by fourteen distinguished scholars, of some of the central strands in the philosophy of Simone Weil.