Ethics and creativity in the political thought of Simone Weil and Albert Camus
In: Studies in political science 16
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In: Studies in political science 16
In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Volume 18, Issue S2, p. 110-113
ISSN: 1476-9336
In: The latin americanist: TLA, Volume 60, Issue 2, p. 305-307
ISSN: 1557-203X
In: American review of politics, Volume 28, p. 266-268
ISSN: 1051-5054
In: Politics & policy, Volume 26, Issue 3, p. 593-610
ISSN: 1747-1346
This essay interrogates the relationship of post‐Enlightenment epistemology to the conduct of modern politics through the thought of Simone Weil and Albert Camus. Contemporaries and fellow members of the French Resistance, Weil and Camus begin their critiques of modern politics with critiques of modern epistemology. They begin from different orientations to reality: Weil's is a God‐centered universe of "necessity," while Camus's concern is to live with the "absurdity" of human existence. Their shared experience with the violence of modern politics, however, led them to similar conclusions: a calculative form of reason, presumably capable of unmasking the mysteries of (human) nature and positing totalizing explanations of human experience entails the perpetration of a destructive and dehumanizing violence on human existence and nature in general. Overcoming our epistemological prejudices is the first step to reclaiming politics for human beings.
In: Western Political Science Association 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Volume 2, Issue 2, p. 209-230
ISSN: 1476-9336
This book brings a variety of voices into conversation about the issues of identity, community, tension and violence, and peace in the West: from Sophocles to Alice Walker, from Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr. and from Euripides to Edward Said. Author Carolyn M. Jones Medine: Carolyn M. Jones Medine is Professor of Religion and the Institute of African American Studies in the Department of Religion at the University of Georgia, USA.
In: Political Theory for Today Series