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Exploring the philosophical writings of Simone Weil, this extensive work documents the key thinkers who influenced her political, philosophical and religious outlook. It also offers a critical analysis of her wide-ranging philosophical concepts through incisive and insightful essays, revealing how they connect throughout her writings to form an organic whole. Part I explores Weil’s boundary-crossing interests in radical politics, science, mathematics, history, and religious phenomena. Part II traces the intellectual history of Weil’s own writings by mapping her most important philosophical influences including Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant, and Marx. Part III turns to the distinctive terms that tie Weil’s body of thinking together: terms such as amor fati, attention, beauty, force, gravity and grace, receive full explication alongside important themes of justice, obedience, compassion, and method as they figure in her work. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil provides readers with clarifying and comprehensive coverage of Weil’s ideas and writings, leading the reader through her expansive oeuvre alongside an overview of the critical literature.

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In this timely volume, Lissa McCullough brings together key figures in the study of Simone Weil to carefully weave together the myriad themes, ideas, and problems central to her philosophy. With entries ranging from St John of the Cross to Mathematics, it provides not only an overview of Weil's thought, but also an original intervention in Weil studies. This volume will be an important resource for the study of Simone Weil in the English language for years to come. * Christopher Thomas, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, Co-Founder of the UK Simone Weil Research Network *

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Lissa McCullough is Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at California State University Dominguez Hills, USA.

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