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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: Non-Fiction | 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
Category: 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
Oppression and Liberty by Simone Weil
Category: Non-Fiction | 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: An Anthology by Simone Weil; Sian Miles (Foreword by, Editor)
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)
Category: Reference | 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
Category: Reference
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
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
Thinking in Thin Air - Anthology of a Decade: Engadin Art Talks by Eileen Myles (Text by); Peter Zumthor (Text by); Bethan Huws (Text by); Philip Ursprung (Text by); Oscar Tuazon (Text by); Robert Walser (Text by); Rem Koolhass (Text by); Bruno Taut (Text by); Nina von Albertinu (Text by); Simone Weil (Text by); Finn Canonica (Text by, Editor)
Category: Fiction
A diverse anthology of work from the fabled Engadin Art Talks, with Eileen Myles, Thomas Hirschhorn and many moreIn the Engadine mountain village of Zuoz, high in the Swiss Alps, artists, architects and scientists gather every winter to talk about their ideas and projects and to exchange ideas beyond th ...Show more
Waiting for God by Simone Weil
Category: Religion
'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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