Author
Simone Weil
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Published
November 1997
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Author
Simone Weil
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Published
November 1997
£11.87
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Gravity and Grace
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"A book of Pascalian pensees, touching on many phases of the intellectual and spiritual worlds. Written in prose which is as unadorned as a geometry theorem, it bears clear personal traces of the young genius who was half icy intellectual, half mystic."- "New York Times". "In these private reflections, at once pregnant and precise, and all springing out of painful depths of experience, mental pride is transmuted into spiritual insight."-"Manchester Guardian". 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 gr ce" 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, this masterwork makes clear why critics have called Simone Weil "a great soul who might have become a saint" and "the Outsider as saint, in an age of alienation." Introducer Thomas R. Nevin is a professor of classical studies at John Carroll University and the author of "Simone Weil: Portrait of a Self-Exiled Jew".
Author
Simone Weil
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Published
November 1997
Weight
296g
Page Count
236
Dimensions
138 x 214 x 18 mm
ISBN
9780803298002
ISBN-10
0803298005
Eden Code
4451047
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Author/Creator: Simone Weil
ISBN: 9780803298002
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Release Date: November 1997
Weight: 296g
Dimensions: 138 x 214 x 18 mm
Eden Code: 4451047