The Need For Roots: Prelude To A Declatation Of Duties Towards Mankind
Language: English
Published by Ark Paperbacks, New York & London, 1978
- Softcover
- Used
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(Preface By T. S. Eliot; Pages are slightly yellowed; Wrappers have light edge-wear and creases; Text has sparse underlining and notations in red and blue pen).
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- Title
- The Need For Roots: Prelude To A Declatation Of Duties Towards Mankind
- Author
- Weil, Simon
- Publisher
- Ark Paperbacks, New York & London
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0744800587
- ISBN 13
- 9780744800586
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From the Back Cover
Hailed by Andri Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1943, the final year of her life, unable to join the resistance movement in France, she worked in London for the Free French government in exile. Here she was commissioned to outline a plan for the renewal of Europe after the scourge of Nazism. The Need for Roots was the direct result. In it she seized the opportunity to denounce the false values of contemporary civilization. In the cult of materialism she witnessed a devastating loss of spirit and consequently of human values. To counteract this she sets out a radical vision for spiritual and political renewal with a passion for truth which sweeps through these pages. The book has become a lasting spiritual testament for our age, where we are confronted, as T.S. Eliot comments, by a 'genius akin to that of the saints'.
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