Lectures on Philosophy
- Real Author: Simone Weil
- Translator: H. Price
- Date Published: October 1978
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521293334
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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 Her method of presentation is a characteristic combination of abstract argument, personal experience and literary or historical reference.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.
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- Date Published: October 1978
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521293334
- length: 244 pages
- dimensions: 199 x 129 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.24kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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