Simone Weil
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The Notebooks of Simone Weil
The Notebooks are key among the very few 'unofficial' Weil writings that still survive today. They give a specially rare and intimate glimpse into her thought, and new insights into her famous works Routledge now publishes nearly all of Weil's major titles Interest in Simone Weil continues to grow, and this is a chance for readers to get hold of a book that's been out of print for twenty years There are no comparable private writings other than a collection of letters and a collection of formative writings, both of which are now out of print Will have good markets among research-level students of religious studies, philosophy and politics
Simone Weil
Author: John Hellman
language: en
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date: 2010-10-30
“The generation of 1930 in French intellectual life was unique in the gravity of the challenges they faced.” Simone Weil—the brilliant social and political theorist, activist, and spiritual writer—was one of an eminent company in the France of the 1930s who responded to these challenges. In her brief, remarkable life she wrote a host of essays and letters and filled several notebooks with reflections. Hellman’s volume sets out the single world view—with its paradoxes and its logic—which appears behind her disparate writings but which she never lived to set out formally herself. Hellman extracts the key themes in Weil’s writings on Marxism, Hitlerism, factory work, history, and religion, in an effort to examine the seeming contradictions and inconsistencies in her fusion of deep spirituality and commitment to the poor and oppressed and her love-hate relationship with Roman Catholicism and Israel. The result is a synthesis of her thought as a whole, drawn principally from her varied, fragmentary writings, and seen in relation to her life and personality.
Simone Weil, an Anthology
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a philosopher, theologian, political activist, and mystic whose work endures among the greatest spiritual thinking in human history. Born and educated in Paris, she was devoted to advocating for disenfranchised citizens around the world. Called the 'saint of all outsiders' by Andre Gide, Weil's compassion for the plight of the working class and the armed forces fueled her enlightened treatises and existential inquiries.