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  1. Simone Weil's apologetic use of literature
    her christological interpretations of classic Greek texts
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0191526479; 9780191526473
    RVK Categories: CI 6293 ; IH 90121
    Series: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
    Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern; Christianity / Philosophy; Greek literature; Religion; Christentum; Geschichte; Philosophie; Christianity; Greek literature; Rezeption; Christentum; Literatur
    Other subjects: Weil, Simone / 1909-1943 / Religion; Weil, Simone / 1909-1943; Weil, Simone (1909-1943); Weil, Simone (1909-1943); Weil, Simone (1909-1943)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 245 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-240) and index

    After an unexpected mystical experience, the philosopher Simone Weil (1909-43) read the Greek classics from a Christian perspective, as this original study shows. To the intellectual agnostics of her day she wanted to show that the classics they loved could only be fully understood in light of Christ. To the Catholics she wanted to demonstrate that Christianity is much more universal than they thought, since Greek culture already embodied the Christian spirit before the incarnation. of Christ. - ;Marie Cabaud Meaney looks at Simone Weil's Christological interpretations of the Sophoclean Antigo