S imone W eil and the Theo‐Poetics of Compassion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20459284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Hollingsworth (Berry College Department of Religion and Philosophy P.O. Box 550 Mount Berry GA 30149 USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 203-229 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-7177 • E-ISSN: 1468-0025 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/moth.12034 |
| OpenAlex | W2098494817 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
S imone W eil's writings suggest that human compassion is divinely revelatory to the extent that interpersonal union and estrangement intensify identically and simultaneously. The relational space of compassionate communion is aporetic; the more attuned one becomes to an afflicted other, the more unreachable this other is seen to be. In her uniquely poetic style of writing, W eil locates perhaps the most intense experience of G od directly in the center of this aporia. Compassion between two people—a sufferer and an empathizer—becomes a locus of divine manifestation as it instantiates the (im)possible distance and oneness of C reation, I ncarnation, and C ross
Art · Compassion · Interpersonal communication · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Theology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy and Literary Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |