On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone. Weil (2014, Paperback)

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Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
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Ex Libris
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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed
No
Vintage
No
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Unit Type
Unit
Era
2010s
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No
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Unit Quantity
1
ISBN
9781590177815
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590177819
ISBN-13
9781590177815
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201631910

Product Key Features

Book Title
On the Abolition of All Political Parties
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Individual Philosophers, General, Political, Political Ideologies / General, Political Process / Political Parties
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Political Science, Philosophy
Author
Simone Weil
Book Series
Nyrb Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-023688
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"At a time when the distrust and disenchantment Americans feel with politics runs deeper than the Mariana Trench, Weil's essay 'On the Abolition of All Political Parties' would no doubt be a best seller." --Robert Zaretsky, The New York Times "What makes [Weil's] thought so special, so bracing and so strange, is its combination of philosophical rigour and spiritual compass." -- The Australian   "Weil's writing is both quite strictly rational and eccentrically spiritual. Her words all but radiate moral and intellectual conviction." --Australian Book Review  "It makes for fascinating, and unsettling, election-year reading."  -- New Republic  , "At a time when the distrust and disenchantment Americans feel with politics runs deeper than the Mariana Trench, Weil's essay 'On the Abolition of All Political Parties' would no doubt be a best seller." --Robert Zaretsky, The New York Times "What makes [Weil's] thought so special, so bracing and so strange, is its combination of philosophical rigour and spiritual compass." -- The Australian   "Weil's writing is both quite strictly rational and eccentrically spiritual. Her words all but radiate moral and intellectual conviction." --Australian Book Review , "At a time when the distrust and disenchantment Americans feel with politics runs deeper than the Mariana Trench, Weil's essay 'On the Abolition of All Political Parties' would no doubt be a best seller." --Robert Zaretsky, The New York Times "What makes [Weil's] thought so special, so bracing and so strange, is its combination of philosophical rigour and spiritual compass." -- The Australian   "Weil's writing is both quite strictly rational and eccentrically spiritual. Her words all but radiate moral and intellectual conviction." --Australian Book Review  "It makes for fascinating, and unsettling, election-year reading."  -- New Republic, "At a time when the distrust and disenchantment Americans feel with politics runs deeper than the Mariana Trench, Weil's essay 'On the Abolition of All Political Parties' would no doubt be a best seller." --Robert Zaretsky, from "Recalling the Apostle of Nonpartisanship," The New York Times   "What makes her thought so special, so bracing and so strange, is its combination of philosophical rigour and spiritual compass...Only a saint could withstand the pressure to conform to the prefabricated morality of the political realm; only a genius could formulate an idea outside the 'for' or 'against' thinking so long inculcated by party politics that it has become a kind of 'intellectual leprosy.' The tone and texture of this vivid editorial, however, renews a certainty that Weil was both." -- The Australian   "Weil's writing is unusual and compelling, in part, because it is both quite strictly rational and eccentrically spiritual. Her argumentation is so compact, so holistic, each sentence and paragraph building methodically on its predecessor, that trying to précis her is probably futile. To omit anything from a summary of her writing is to short-change her. She writes modestly and without flair, but her words all but radiate moral and intellectual conviction." -- Australian Book Review
Dewey Decimal
324.2
Synopsis
An NYRB Classics Original Simone Weil-philosopher, activist, mystic-is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In "On the Abolition of All Political Parties" she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance today, when the apathy and anger of the people and the self-serving partisanship of the political class present a threat to democracies all over the world. Dissecting the dynamic of power and propaganda caused by party spirit, the increasing disregard for truth in favor of opinion, and the consequent corruption of education, journalism, and art, Weil forcefully makes the case that a true politics can only begin where party spirit ends. This volume also includes an admiring portrait of Weil by the great poet Czeslaw Milosz and an essay about Weil's friendship with Albert Camus by the translator Simon Leys., An NYRB Classics Original Simone Weil--philosopher, activist, mystic--is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In "On the Abolition of All Political Parties" she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance today, when the apathy and anger of the people and the self-serving partisanship of the political class present a threat to democracies all over the world. Dissecting the dynamic of power and propaganda caused by party spirit, the increasing disregard for truth in favor of opinion, and the consequent corruption of education, journalism, and art, Weil forcefully makes the case that a true politics can only begin where party spirit ends. This volume also includes an admiring portrait of Weil by the great poet Czeslaw Milosz and an essay about Weil's friendship with Albert Camus by the translator Simon Leys.
LC Classification Number
JC261.W45W4513 2014

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