عنوان

The Power to Say I.Reflections on the Modernity of Simone Weil's Mystical Thought

شماره

LA116543

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Power to Say I.Reflections on the Modernity of Simone Weil's Mystical Thought

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Marc De Kesel

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill | Schöningh

متن يادداشت

What precisely is at stake in Simone Weil's shift to Christianity? Is it only the story of a modern agnostic intellectual discovering and reinventing an old religious tradition? What if, under the surface of that move, modernity itself is as much at stake? What if Weil's mystical thought conceals a profound reflection on the modern subject? It is true, in line with almost the entire pre-modern and modern mystical tradition, her thought is a full-blown attack against the Cartesian ego and its pretention to be the solid and free basis of our modern relation to reality. But what if the most interesting aspect of Weil's thought is that she fails in that attack, and that, despite all her efforts to destroy that subject, that very subject resists even in the very heart of both the mystical truth she describes and in her theoretical thought about that truth. What if Weil's move to Christianity does not say so much about Christianity, nor about the Christian side of modernity, but about the abysmal base of modernity's subject? What precisely is at stake in Simone Weil's shift to Christianity? Is it only the story of a modern agnostic intellectual discovering and reinventing an old religious tradition? What if, under the surface of that move, modernity itself is as much at stake? What if Weil's mystical thought conceals a profound reflection on the modern subject? It is true, in line with almost the entire pre-modern and modern mystical tradition, her thought is a full-blown attack against the Cartesian ego and its pretention to be the solid and free basis of our modern relation to reality. But what if the most interesting aspect of Weil's thought is that she fails in that attack, and that, despite all her efforts to destroy that subject, that very subject resists even in the very heart of both the mystical truth she describes and in her theoretical thought about that truth. What if Weil's move to Christianity does not say so much about Christianity, nor about the Christian side of modernity, but about the abysmal base of modernity's subject? What precisely is at stake in Simone Weil's shift to Christianity? Is it only the story of a modern agnostic intellectual discovering and reinventing an old religious tradition? What if, under the surface of that move, modernity itself is as much at stake? What if Weil's mystical thought conceals a profound reflection on the modern subject? It is true, in line with almost the entire pre-modern and modern mystical tradition, her thought is a full-blown attack against the Cartesian ego and its pretention to be the solid and free basis of our modern relation to reality. But what if the most interesting aspect of Weil's thought is that she fails in that attack, and that, despite all her efforts to destroy that subject, that very subject resists even in the very heart of both the mystical truth she describes and in her theoretical thought about that truth. What if Weil's move to Christianity does not say so much about Christianity, nor about the Christian side of modernity, but about the abysmal base of modernity's subject? What precisely is at stake in Simone Weil's shift to Christianity? Is it only the story of a modern agnostic intellectual discovering and reinventing an old religious tradition? What if, under the surface of that move, modernity itself is as much at stake? What if Weil's mystical thought conceals a profound reflection on the modern subject? It is true, in line with almost the entire pre-modern and modern mystical tradition, her thought is a full-blown attack against the Cartesian ego and its pretention to be the solid and free basis of our modern relation to reality. But what if the most interesting aspect of Weil's thought is that she fails in that attack, and that, despite all her efforts to destroy that subject, that very subject resists even in the very heart of both the mystical truth she describes and in her theoretical thought about that truth. What if Weil's move to Christianity does not say so much about Christianity, nor about the Christian side of modernity, but about the abysmal base of modernity's subject?

تاريخ نشر

2019

توصيف ظاهري

165-181

عنوان

Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society

شماره جلد

5/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2364-2807

اصطلاح موضوعی

Christianity

اصطلاح موضوعی

Descartes

اصطلاح موضوعی

modernity

اصطلاح موضوعی

mysticism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Simone Weil

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Marc De Kesel

شماره بازیابی

10.30965/23642807-00501009

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y