Simone Weil: Portrait of a Self-Exiled Jew by Thomas R. Nevin

Author:Thomas R. Nevin [Nevin, Thomas R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Philosophy, Biography, Judaism, ST, CS
ISBN: 9780807819999
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 1991-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

In her vigorous partisanship for the oppressed, how could she have ignored the tsedeka of the Deuteronomic laws, their compassionate justice extended to foreigners and slaves, proofs of a far loftier moral sense than is found in her florilegium of favorite texts, including the Gita and Egypt's Book of the Dead? In her concern for the integrity of thought free of all collectivist persecutions, how could she have refused attention to the woeful history of Jews at the mercy of Christian Europe for nearly two thousand years and to minds such as Maimonides, whose works were banned and burned near to the very time and place where her friends, the Cathars, fell?

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