Attention, Avoidance, and Tragedy: What Simone Weil Could Have Said About King Lear If She Had Read Stanley Cavell

Attention is central to Simone Weil’s ethics. Tragedy dramatizes what is for her the key human choice: whether to attempt false alliances with what she calls force, or whether to relinquish the illusion of alliances with force, accept our exposure to suffering (even the crushing suffering she calls...

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Main Author: Gehring, Stephanie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dep. 2020
In: Religion & literature
Year: 2019, Volume: 51/52, Issue: 3/1, Pages: 1-21
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NCB Personal ethics
Further subjects:B TRAGIC plays of William Shakespeare
B Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
B PARADIGM (Linguistics)
B Temptation
B Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018
B Weil, Simone, 1909-1943
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