The Simone Weil Reader

Simone Weil

ISBN 10: 0918825016 / ISBN 13: 9780918825018

Published by Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Simone Weil Reader
• Publisher: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0918825016
• ISBN 13: 9780918825018
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a teacher, classical scholar, philosopher, political activist and seeker of the truth. She confronted the rootlessness of modern life and the death of the spirit in an age of materialism. Her writing was visionary and her vision, radical.Born in France, a contemporary of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, Weil inspired T.S. Eliot to say of her, We must simply expose ourselves to the personality of a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of a saint. Today, nearly sixty years after her death, her work has, perhaps, an even greater immediacy and relevance. This book is a collection of the best of her writings from The Notebooks of Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty and Gravity and Grace.

About the Author

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the most original and rigorous female thinkers of the twentieth century. She became increasingly drawn to Christianity in the latter part of her life and officially converted in 1938. She died at the age of thirty-four while working as an advocate for the Free French movement. Her sixteen volumes of posthumously published works include "Gravity and Grace" (1963) and "The Need for Roots" (1952).