Instructor Nina Power, PhD

Simone Weil The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind (1949)

Description

This seminar will read Weil's great mid-twentieth century text with a view to understanding our own time. By coming to terms with Weil's ideas about 'the needs of the soul', 'uprootedness' and 'the growing of roots', alongside a broader understanding about her place in political philosophy, spiritual and theological thought, we will revisit all the dislocations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Texts

Giorgio Agamben, Opus Dei : An Archeology of Duty

Simone Weil The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind

Simone Weil Gravity and Grace

Schedule:

October 8, 15, 22, 29 at 1pm New York time