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A Life in Letters by Simone Weil
Category: Philosophy
The inspiring letters of philosopher, mystic, and freedom fighter Simone Weil to her family, presented for the first time in English. Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909?1943) lived largely in the shadows, searching for her spiritual home while bearing witness to the violence that d ...Show more
Gravity And Grace by Weil Simone
Category: Philosophy
Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when she died young in 1943. Four years later the philosopher-farmer Gustave Thibon compiled La pesanteur et la gr ce from the notebooks she left in his keeping. In 1952 this English translation accelerated t ...Show more
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil; Gustave Thibon (Introduction by); Emma Crawford (Translator); Mario von der Ruhr Rah (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Gravity and Graceshows Weil's religious thoughts and ideas, drawn from many sources - Christian, Jewish, Indian, Greek and Hindu - and focusing on suffering and redemption. It brings the reader face to face with the profoundest levels of existence as Weil explores the relationship of the human conditio ...Show more
Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks by Simone Weil
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
In Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks Weil apply her unique, piercing intellect to early Greek thought, where she finds precursors to Christianity. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Christopher Hamilton. Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and ...Show more
Letter to a Priest by Simone Weil
Category: Culture | Series: Routledge Great Minds
Hailed by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our times', Simone Weil was one of great essayists and activists of the twentieth century. Her writings on the nature of religious faith and spirituality have inspired many subsequent thinkers. Wrestling with the moral dilemmas entailed by commitment t ...Show more
Letter to a Priest by Simone Weil
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics
Letter to a Priest encapsulates the sharp wit and questioning nature of Simone Weil. Regarded by Susan Sontag as 'one of the most uncompromising and troubling witnesses to the modern travail of the spirit', Weil grips the moral imagination as few others before or since. She was only thirty four when she ...Show more
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simon Leys; Simone Weil (Translator)
Category: History
'Political parties are a marvellous mechanism . . . If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.' Here Simon Leys translates for the first time into English an essay by the remarkable Simone Weil - philosopher, activist, mystic - which ma ...Show more
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil
Category: History | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Simone Weil-philosopher, activist, mystic-is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In "On the Abolition of All Political Parties" she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance today, when the apathy and anger o ...Show more
Oppression and Liberty by Simone Weil
Category: Culture | Series: Classics Ser.
Oppression and Libertyis one of Simone Weil's most important books on political theory.Here she discusses political and social oppression, its permanent causes, the way it works and its contemporary forms. Simone Weil's writings on oppression and liberty continue to be as valid and thought-provoking tod ...Show more
Simone Weil by Palle Yourgrau & Simone Weil
Category: Biography | Series: Critical Lives
This book is an engaging presentation of the life and work of the legendary French philosopher, political activist and mystic Simone Weil. Palle Yourgrau assesses Weil's controversial critique of Judaism, and her radical re-imagination of Christianity; and analyses how Weil's personal struggles influen ...Show more
Simone Weil: An Anthology by Simone Weil; Sian Miles (Foreword by, Editor)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. This anthology spans the wide range of her thought, and includes an extract from her best-known work The Need for Roots,exploring the ways in which modern society ...Show more
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind by Simone Weil; T. S. Eliot (Foreword by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Classics Ser.
Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a ...Show more