Description:
Essays that discuss how Simone Weil was indebted to Plato and how her readings of Plato challenge contemporary philosophy, theology, and spirituality.
Brief description:
E. Jane Doering is a professor and the executive coordinator of the Teachers as Scholars Program in the College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame. She is the co-editor of The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004).
Review Quotes:
"These essays--some written by leading specialists in Simone Weil's thought, others by prominent philosophers of religion and theologians--are especially valuable not only for elucidating Weil's reading of Plato but also for showing what one or another form of Christian Platonism (and there are several!) can mean for us today." --James A. Wiseman, O.S.B., The Catholic University of America