Lectures on Philosophy

Weil, Simone

ISBN 10: 0521293332 / ISBN 13: 9780521293334

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 1979

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Translated by Hugh Price with an introduction by Peter Winch. Some light handling and discoloration to covers, otherwise clean and bright. Gift inscription on half-title page. Binding tight and text clean. Codice articolo 4433991

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Titolo: Lectures on Philosophy

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press

Data di pubblicazione: 1979

Legatura: Soft cover

Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto:

Simone Weil's Leçons de Philosophie are derived from a course she taught at the lycée for girls at Roanne in 1933–4. Anne Reynaud-Guérithault was a pupil in the class; her notes are not a verbatim record but are a very full and, as far as one can judge, faithful rendering, often catching the unmistakable tone of Simone Weil's voice as well as the force and the directness of her thought. The lectures form a good general introduction to philosophy, ranging widely over problems about perception, mind, language, reasoning and problems in moral and political philosophy too. Her method of presentation is a characteristic combination of abstract argument, personal experience and literary or historical reference. Peter Winch points out in his introduction to the book some of the more systematic connections in her philosophical work (and between this philosophical work and her other concerns), and makes a number of suggestive comparisons between Simone Weil and Wittgenstein. The translation is by Hugh Price from the Plon edition of 1959. Dr Price has added some notes to explain references in the text that might be unfamiliar to English speaking students beginning philosophy.

Contenuti:

Translator's preface; Introduction Peter Winch; Anne Reynaud-Guérithault's introduction; 1. The material point of view; 2. After the discovery of mind; 3. Politics and social theory; 4. Ethics and aesthetics; 5. Miscellaneous topics and essay plans; Index.