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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: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simon Leys; Simone Weil (Translator)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'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
Simone Weil: An Anthology by Simone Weil; Sian Miles (Foreword by, Editor)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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: Culture Ideas Politics | 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 Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being by Simone Weil
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work- a political, philosophical, and spiritual treatiseOne of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil has been described by Andre Gide as 'the patron saint of all outsiders' and by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time ...Show more
The Power of Words by Simone Weil
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
Venice Saved by Simone Weil; Philip Wilson (Translator); Silvia Panizza (Translator)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Towards the end of her life, the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (1909-43) was working on a tragedy, Venice Saved. Appearing here in English for the first time, this play explores the realisation of Weil's own thoughts on tragedy. A figure of affliction, a central theme in Weil's religious met ...Show more
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