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  • SIMONE WEIL: BASIC WRITINGS
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    SIMONE WEIL: BASIC WRITINGS
    SIMONE WEIL
    Simone Weil is one of the most profound and thought-provoking thinkers of the 20th century. A teacher, factory and farm labourer, a political activist at home and abroad, a loving friend, daughter and sister—all these manifest a life devoted to the good in its many forms. Her writings explore the good open to us and the various routes to it, spanning philosophy, politics, scien...

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  • INTIMATIONS OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS
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    INTIMATIONS OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS
    SIMONE WEIL
    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 v...

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  • WAITING FOR GOD
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    WAITING FOR GOD
    SIMONE WEIL
    'You cannot get far in these essays without sensing yourself in the presence of a writer of immense intellectual power and fierce independence of mind.' - Janet Soskice, from the Introduction to the Routledge Classics edition Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century. She was also a politica...

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  • THE NEED FOR ROOTS
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    THE NEED FOR ROOTS
    SIMONE WEIL
    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 ...

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  • LETTER TO A PRIEST
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    LETTER TO A PRIEST
    SIMONE WEIL
    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 p...

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  • THE NOTEBOOKS OF SIMONE WEIL
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    THE NOTEBOOKS OF SIMONE WEIL
    SIMONE WEIL
    Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a defining figure of the twentieth 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', and by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time'. Originally published posthumously in two volum...

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  • FORMATIVE WRITINGS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    FORMATIVE WRITINGS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    SIMONE 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 ...

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  • OPPRESSION AND LIBERTY
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    OPPRESSION AND LIBERTY
    SIMONE WEIL
    The remarkable French thinker Simone Weil is one of the leading intellectual and spiritual figures of the twentieth century. A legendary essayist, political philosopher and member of the French resistance, her literary output belied her tragically short life. Most of her work was published posthumously, to widespread acclaim. Always concerned with the nature of individual freed...

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  • SELECTED ESSAYS, 1934–1943
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    SELECTED ESSAYS, 1934–1943
    SIMONE WEIL
    Introducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil Weil's many essays written over her short life cover a very wide range of topics. This important collection contains several that have been long unavailable. There is deep integrity in this diverse collection. Many are directed to social and political topics, written in Weil's distinctive way of commenting on contemporary issues th...

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  • SEVENTY LETTERS
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    SEVENTY LETTERS
    SIMONE WEIL
    Introducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil Throughout her life, Simone Weil was a constant letter writer and Seventy Letters contains a fair and important selection of them. Many of them are biographically important, as they are written to friends and to her family, especially to her brother, Andre. But they also give many important clues to Weil's own thinking on social an...

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  • DHARMA AND DETACHMENT: WRITINGS ON INDIAN AND TIBETAN THOUGHT
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    DHARMA AND DETACHMENT: WRITINGS ON INDIAN AND TIBETAN THOUGHT
    SIMONE WEIL
    Simone Weil was one of the most profound and thought-provoking thinkers of the twentieth century. An intellectual prodigy from an early age in both the sciences and the arts, she was at different times a teacher, factory and farm labourer, and political activist, spending a brief period in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Her writings, which span philosophy, politics, religi...

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