Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other
by
Yoon Sook Cha
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In Simone Weil’s philosophical and literary work, obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: the other’s self-affirmation and one’s own dislocation; what one has and what one has to give; a demand that asks for too much and the extraordinary demand implied by asking nothing....