Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual. She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as...
Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along ...
On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark...
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a defining figure of the 20th century - a philosopher, Christian, resistance fighter, anarchist, feminist, Labour activist and teacher. She was described by T.S. Eliot as a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of the saints. These are her notebooks.
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a defining figure of the 20th century - a philosopher, Christian, resistance fighter, anarchist, feminist, Labour activist...
Simone Weil's Lecons de Philosophie are derived from a course she taught at the lycee for girls at Roanne in 1933 4. Anne Reynaud-Guerithault was a pupil in the class; her notes are not a verbatim record but are a very full and, as far as one can judge, faithful rendering, often catching the unmistakable tone of Simone Weil's voice as well as the force and the directness of her thought. The lectures form a good general introduction to philosophy, ranging widely over problems about perception, mind, language, reasoning and problems in moral and political philosophy too. Her method of...
Simone Weil's Lecons de Philosophie are derived from a course she taught at the lycee for girls at Roanne in 1933 4. Anne Reynaud-Guerithault was a pu...
In 1931, Simone Weil read an article by Louis Roubaud in the Petit Parisien that exposed the Yen Bay massacre in Indochina. That article opened Weil's eyes, and from then until her death in exile in 1943, she cared most deeply about the French colonial situation. Weil refused to accept the contradiction between the image of France as champion of the rights of man and the reality of France's exploitation and oppression of the peoples in its territories. Weil wrote thirteen articles or letters about the situation, writings originally published in French journals or in French collections of her...
In 1931, Simone Weil read an article by Louis Roubaud in the Petit Parisien that exposed the Yen Bay massacre in Indochina. That article opened Weil's...
Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when she died young in 1943. Four years later the philosopher-farmer Gustave Thibon compiled La pesanteur et la grace from the notebooks she left in his keeping. In 1952 this English translation accelerated the fame and influence of Simone Weil.The striking aphorisms in Gravity and Grace reflect the religious philosophy of Weil s last years. Written at the onset of World War II, when her health was deteriorating and her left-wing social activism was giving way to spiritual introspection,...
Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when she died young in 1943. Four years later the phil...
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death. Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one of her most celebrated works--an inspired analysis of Homer's epic that presents a nightmare vision of combat as a machine in which all humanity is lost. First published on the eve of war in 1939, the essay has often been read as a pacifist manifesto. Rachel Bespaloff was a French contemporary of Weil's whose work similarly...
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links betwe...
Eine (Wieder)Entdeckung: Simone Weil über Krieg und Gewalt §Der Band versammelt, größtenteils zum ersten Mal in deutscher Sprache, bislang kaum erschlossene Schriften Simone Weils der dreißiger und frühen vierziger Jahre am Vorabend des zweiten Weltkriegs, vor dem Hintergrund von Weltwirtschaftskrise, Volksfront und spanischem Bürgerkrieg, und zuletzt zu Kriegszeiten im besetzten Frankreich und in ihrer Aktivität für die Résistance. In ihren Analysen seziert Simone Weil die Mechanismen der Macht, die Formen der Gewalt und die Verführungskraft der Ideologie und überrascht etwa...
Eine (Wieder)Entdeckung: Simone Weil über Krieg und Gewalt §Der Band versammelt, größtenteils zum ersten Mal in deutscher Sprache, bislang kaum er...
Vor dem Hintergrund einer Radikalisierung der politischen Systeme in Europa fragt Simone Weil 1934 nach den Ursachen des überall um sich greifenden Unbehagens. Warum leben wir in einer ungerechten Gesellschaft, in der der Einzelne nicht frei und zufrieden sein kann? Weil wir uns nach Simone Weil zu Instrumenten der von uns selbst produzierten Herrschaft machen. Aus einer marxismuskritischen Perspektive erforscht sie die Verbindung von wachsender Unterdrückung und wachsender wirtschaftlicher Prosperität. Welchen Preis zahlt das Kollektiv für den Glauben an ewiges Wachstum und immer weiter...
Vor dem Hintergrund einer Radikalisierung der politischen Systeme in Europa fragt Simone Weil 1934 nach den Ursachen des überall um sich greifenden U...
