Resumen
Simone Weil and George Orwell both reflected-at a time when liberalism and Christianity were being challenged-on how to provide rootedness to societies and how to provide a moral anchoring and collective inspiration. The chapter considers the extent to which religion plays an important role in these authors’ politics of rootedness. A comparison between them suggests that rather than worrying first about whether or not we need a religious revival, we should worry about whether individuals have the opportunity to enter into contact with beauty. For both Weil and Orwell, a society is well-rooted when there is a continuity between natural beauty and social life. As such, a politics of rootedness entails, in their view, a genuine search for the recognition of all members of a collectivity and, above all, the search for a way of learning again how to find nourishment in the beauty of the world.
Idioma original | Inglés |
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Título de la publicación alojada | Simone Weil, Beyond Ideology? |
Editorial | Springer International Publishing |
Páginas | 103-121 |
Número de páginas | 19 |
ISBN (versión digital) | 9783030484019 |
ISBN (versión impresa) | 9783030484002 |
DOI | |
Estado | Publicada - 1 ene 2020 |