<P>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, science and spirituality. While she saw her vocation primarily as a philosopher¿examining questions concerning human faculties, action and thought, the limits of language and our need of mediation, suffering and beauty for contact with reality¿her startlingly original thought is often obscured by her having been too readily categorized as a Christian mystic.</P><P><I>Simone Weil: Basic Writings</I> is an expertly edited anthology of Weil¿s most important writings, presenting her philosophy as it relates to the architecture of human nature, politics, work, necessity, beauty, goodness and God. Working from the defini
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<P>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...
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Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century's most original philosopher-critics, and as a result her legacy has been claimed by many. This memoir by Weil's niece is strong-willed and incisive and as close as we are likely to get to the real...
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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...
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Simone Weil (1909-1943) skrev hovedværket Rodfæstelsen under anden verdenskrig, kort før hun døde af tuberkulose, 34 år gammel. Undertitlen er meget sigende: Optakt til en erklæring om pligter over for mennesket. Weil ser det 20. århundredes civilisation,...
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