"The Absent God" and Other Critical and Philosophical Writings

This essential work collects Susan Taubes's philosophical and critical writings, establishing her as one of the most remarkable philosophical minds of the twentieth century. At the centerpiece of the volume is Susan Taubes's dissertation on Simone Weil, "The Absent God", and also included are her previously published essays and reviews on Weil, Heidegger, Genet and Camus, as well as an unpublished fragment on Kafka. Taken together, these rigorously philosophical works show Taubes to be a th...