The Thought and Life of Simone Weil with Kenny Novis

[@LongKestrel]

Saints of the Impossible is a wild book everyone interested in Bataille or Weil should read, I recall it flips Weil's rationality and championing of life on its head, read through Bataille/Blue of Noon. I read she may have gotten the concept of Tzimtzum in a roundabout way through Schelling, wish I could find the source again. Kenosis is also a related term, I guess. Wish she had more time to reckon with her shortcomings 😔 I was shocked when I learned Novis was Kenny's actual name haha

[@oxherder9061]

It’s a fun synchronicity isn’t it?

[@oxherder9061]

Yesss!!!! Funny coincidence, Simone Weil used to go by the pen name Emile Novis.

[@oxherder9061]

… Bruh is this a synchronicity…?

[@LongKestrel]

Let's GOOOOO!

[@ransche1]

Could you tell me if the content of Letter To A Priest can be found in Waiting For God?

[@KnjazNazrath]

Not a bad primer, I must say.

[@ElkoJohn]

Did Simone Weil have obsessive hatred for all Jews, or just some Jews? obsessive hatred for all philosophers, or just Jewish philosophers? obsessive hatred for all capitalists, or just Jewish capitalists? obsessive hatred for anyone -- or any group -- and if so, what was the cause of her obsessive hatred?

[@oxherder9061]

Dunno, maybe try reading her before forming such prejudices against her and her work?

[@ElkoJohn]

@@oxherder9061 < My use of exaggerated vocabulary was to show that Simone Weil was not an antisemite. This also applies to Hannah Arendt and Norman Finkelstein.

[@oxherder9061]

@@ElkoJohnYou’re a coward, you know that? You were clearly framing her as a self hating Jew with your first comment. Don’t you dare backtrack.

[@ElkoJohn]

@@oxherder9061 < The hosts stated that Simon Weil was accused of antisemitism, but failed to cite sources. Once raised, a philosophy channel should be able to address this issue head on. Would Simon Weil side with the Palestinians or the Israelis? If the Palestinians, is that antisemitism? Granted, free speech allows for throwing insults, but not so the Eight-Fold Path.

[@oxherder9061]

@@ElkoJohn…. Bro do u think you are a Buddhist? What you are is pretentious.