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Abbreviations and Textual Notes
Introduction
Biographical Groundings
Reading Simone Weil
1. Reality and Contradiction
Reality: The Irreducible
Truth and Affliction
The Role of Attention
The Negative Role of Will
The Value of Contradiction
Right Use of Dogma
2. The Paradox of Desire
We Desire the Good
The Good Is Absent
The Good Is a Nothingness
Detachment of Desire
Waiting for God
The Earthly Criterion
(Not) To Speak of Holy Things
3. God and the World
Creation as Withdrawal
The Absent God
'Original Sin'
The Self-Emptying God
Crucifixion as Redemption
Supernatural Harmony
4. Necessity and Obedience
Abdication to Necessity
Providence
Beauty
Suffering
Necessity: Root of Beauty and Suffering
Obedience of Matter: Gravity
Obedience of Spirit: Grace
Amor Fati
5. Grace and Decreation
Sin Says 'I'
Grace Decreates the 'I'
Nothingness: The Humility of God
Heaven and Hell
Transparence
Compassion
Action as Incarnation
6. Conclusion: Weil's Theological Coherence
Background Theological Influences
Dialectic of Nature and Grace
God Beyond Good and Evil
Weil's Anonymous Christianity
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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