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"This book is destined to become a classic."
--Joan Borysenko, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

Drawing on fascinating case histories from his own practice as well as medical techniques he has observed in his travels around the world, Dr. Weil shows how the mechanisms of self-diagnosis and self-regeneration have worked to resolve life-threatening diseases, severe trauma, and chronic pain. But spontaneous healing is also the...

The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, established local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge and status through kinship ties. This long and varied history of Americans search for identity illuminates the story of America itself, according to Francois Weil, as fixations with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way in the twentieth century to an embrace of diverse ethnicity and...

In den Jahren 1934 und 1935 hat Simone Weil ihre Erfahrungen in einer Fabrik in einem Tagebuch festgehalten, das heute mit Recht zu den wichtigsten politischen Dokumenten jener Epoche zählt. Es gibt kein in seiner Bedeutung vergleichbares Stück politischer Literatur aus der Arbeitswelt jener Zeit.

Simone Weil (1909-1943) war Philosophin. Sie schaffte es, große Gegensätze in ihrem Denken und Handeln zu vereinen: So vertrat sie pazifistische Ansichten und kämpfte gleichzeitig im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg, vertrat sowohl rationale als auch mystische Anschauungen.

Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist in the Spanish Civil War, before her tragic early death in England at the age of thirty-four. Her work spans an astonishing variety of subjects, from ancient Greek philosophy and Christianity to oppression, political freedom and French national identity.

Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks sees Weil...