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Hailed by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our times', Simone Weil was one of great essayists and activists of the twentieth century. Her writings on the nature of religious faith and spirituality have inspired many subsequent thinkers. Wrestling with the moral dilemmas entailed by commitment to the Catholic Church, Letter to a Priest is a brilliant meditation on the perennial battle between faith and doubt and resonates today as much as when it was first written. This edition also includes one of her most inspiring and celebrated essays, 'Human Personality', where Weil offers a...

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...

This volume, first published in English in 1987 makes available an important part of Weil's early writings. Although primarily known as a religious thinker, she devoted enormous energy in her formative years to her work as a political activist and as a philosopher/teacher. This book reveals these other sides of Weil and demonstrates the lines of continuity underlying her whole thought.

Written between 1929 and 1941 the book covers a crucial and transitional period in Weil's life. Taken together they represent invaluable primary source material on the evolution of Weil's life...

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.