The Flannery O'connor Ser.: When Fiction and Philosophy Meet : A Conversation with Flannery o'Connor and Simone Weil by Ruthann Knechel Johansen and E. Jane Doering (2019, Hardcover)

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PublisherMercer University Press
ISBN-100881466964
ISBN-139780881466966
eBay Product ID (ePID)24038743800

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Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWhen Fiction and Philosophy Meet : a Conversation with Flannery O'connor and Simone Weil
SubjectSubjects & Themes / Religion, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorRuthann Knechel Johansen, E. Jane Doering
SeriesThe Flannery O'connor Ser.
FormatHardcover

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2019-286081
SynopsisAn innovative book, When Fiction and Philosophy Meet explores the intersection between the philosophy of Simone Weil from Paris, France, and the fiction of Flannery O'Connor from the Southern state of Georgia, USA. In an era of war, of unprecedented human displacements, and of ethnic, racial, and religious fears the ideas of these two intellectuals bear on our present condition. Both women keenly desired to perceive the realities of good and evil inherent in human existence and to bring this truth to the consciousness of their contemporaries. Embracing their belief that truth is eternal but must be transposed and translated, generation after generation, in language appropriate to each age, the authors acquaint O'Connor readers with concepts in Weil's religious philosophy as seen in O'Connor's stories. Doering and Johansen simultaneously illustrate how Weil's philosophy, when embodied in fiction, reveals the lived realities of the human condition across time and space. Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor were audacious thinkers with inquiring minds who held clear and firm religious convictions. Each applied her understandings of enduring spiritual truths to the challenges of nihilism and social oppression as seen in the spreading totalitarianism and the distressing legacy of slavery throughout human history. Both Weil and O'Connor crossed disciplinary boundaries and influenced their respective fields with innovative ideas and artistic expressions. Taking their cues from these writers, Doering and Johansen bring these two remarkable women into a four-voiced dialogue-Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor with Doering and Johansen-by engaging each writer in the forms of her own genre and inviting readers to enter a dialogue of courage with Weil and O'Connor in the postmodern and post-Christian world., An innovative book, When Fiction and Philosophy Meet explores the intersection between the philosophy of Simone Weil from Paris, France, and the fiction of Flannery O'Connor from the Southern state of Georgia, USA.
LC Classification NumberPS3565.C57Z648 2019

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