Beyond Power: Simone Weil and the Notion of Authority

By Desmond Avery

Book Overview

Beyond Power offers fresh ways to approach the burning political, religious, and scientific issues of our time. It also provides a compelling overview of the work of the great French philosopher Simone Weil, whom Albert Camus saw as "the only great mind of our time" and T. S. Eliot saw as "a woman of genius, a kind of genius akin to that of the saints."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739123866
• ISBN13: 9780739123867
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"