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Selected Essays | Siri Hustvedt on Simone Weil

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On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Siri Hustvedt joins us to discuss Simone Weil’s “Human Personality” and her own essay “Scapegoat,” which appears in her recent collection Mothers, Fathers, and Others (2021).

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Chapters

1. Selected Essays | Siri Hustvedt on Simone Weil (00:00:00)

2. Who is Simone Weil (00:02:04)

3. Summarizing "Human Personality" (00:08:30)

4. The essay's opening passage (00:10:51)

5. The role of attention (00:17:46)

6. Reading Weil is a tonic (00:22:55)

7. Rights (00:27:41)

8. Weil's account of affliction (00:30:45)

9. Weil's masochism (00:34:22)

10. Embodiment (00:38:34)

11. Emotionally charged ideas (00:40:43)

12. Siri's essay "Scapegoat" (00:45:24)

13. Crossing intellectual borders (00:50:13)

31 episodes

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On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Siri Hustvedt joins us to discuss Simone Weil’s “Human Personality” and her own essay “Scapegoat,” which appears in her recent collection Mothers, Fathers, and Others (2021).

  continue reading

Chapters

1. Selected Essays | Siri Hustvedt on Simone Weil (00:00:00)

2. Who is Simone Weil (00:02:04)

3. Summarizing "Human Personality" (00:08:30)

4. The essay's opening passage (00:10:51)

5. The role of attention (00:17:46)

6. Reading Weil is a tonic (00:22:55)

7. Rights (00:27:41)

8. Weil's account of affliction (00:30:45)

9. Weil's masochism (00:34:22)

10. Embodiment (00:38:34)

11. Emotionally charged ideas (00:40:43)

12. Siri's essay "Scapegoat" (00:45:24)

13. Crossing intellectual borders (00:50:13)

31 episodes

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