L’horreur transfigurée. Dramatique de la force et beauté du monde selon Simone Weil
Horror Transfigured. Force Drama and World’s Beauty According to Simone Weil
Author(s): Rodolphe OlcèseSubject(s): Social Philosophy, Existentialism
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: force; misfortune; beauty; labour; justice;
Summary/Abstract: This text, dedicated to the thought of Simone Weil, aims to show how misfortune and the experience of horror are the extreme consequence of an immoderate exercise of force, understood as one mode of the natural necessity. The purpose of Simone Weil’s reflections on human distress is to show that misfortune, by sharpening our faculty of attention, opens the way of its own excess.
Journal: ALKEMIE. Revue semestrielle de littérature et philosophie
- Issue Year: 2/2021
- Issue No: 28
- Page Range: 65-83
- Page Count: 19
- Language: French
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