Simone Weil's Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins - Paperback

by Benjamin P. Davis (Author)

Davis demonstrates how Simone Weil's Marxism challenges current neoliberal understandings of the self and of human rights. Explaining her related critiques of colonialism and of political parties, it presents Weil as a twentieth-century political philosopher who anticipated and critically responded to the most contemporary political theory.

Author Biography

Benjamin P. Davis is a postdoctoral fellow in African American Studies at Saint Louis University. Davis's scholarship is in the areas of human rights, Decolonial Theory, and Caribbean Philosophy.