Simone Weil: The Ethics of Affliction and the Aesthetics of Attention

International Journal of Philosophical Studies 28 (2):145-167 (2020)
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For Simone Weil the invocation of ‘rights’ to address extreme human suffering–what she calls ‘affliction’–is ‘ludicrously inadequate’. Rights, Weil argues, invite a response, whereas what the affli...

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10.1080/09672559.2020.1736127

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