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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...

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...

Die Verwurzelung ist Simone Weils politisches und philosophisches Vermächtnis, ihr »Glaubensbekenntnis«, wie sie selbst es nannte, das ihr früher Tod 1943 unvollendet ließ. In Zeiten von Krieg und Barbarei unternimmt Simone Weil darin den Versuch, die Grundprinzipien der Menschlichkeit und der Zivilisation neu zu bestimmen. Als Grundkategorie des Menschseins gilt ihr die »Verwurzelung«, womit sie die reale, aktive und natürliche Teilhabe eines Menschen an einer Gemeinschaft beschreibt.

Ihre Schrift stellt die Frage nach der politischen Verantwortlichkeit des...