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Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil; Gustave Thibon (Introduction by); Emma Crawford (Translator); Mario von der Ruhr Rah (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy | 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
Letter to a Priest by Simone Weil
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Category: Religion/Spirituality | 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
Simone Weil: An Anthology by Simone Weil; Sian Miles (Foreword by, Editor)
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Category: Philosophy | 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)
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Category: Philosophy | 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
The Power of Words by Simone Weil
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipul ...Show more
Waiting for God by Simone Weil
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Category: Religion/Spirituality
'You cannot get far in these essays without sensing yourself in the presence of a writer of immense intellectual power and fierce independence of mind.' - Janet Soskice, from the Introduction to the Routledge Classics edition Simone Weil (1909-1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious ...Show more
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