The Politics of Rootedness: On Simone Weil and George Orwell

Oriol Quintana*

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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 originalInglés
Título de la publicación alojadaSimone Weil, Beyond Ideology?
EditorialSpringer International Publishing
Páginas103-121
Número de páginas19
ISBN (versión digital)9783030484019
ISBN (versión impresa)9783030484002
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 1 ene 2020

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