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Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil; Gustave Thibon (Introduction by); Emma Crawford (Translator); Mario von der Ruhr Rah (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Gravity and Graceshows Weil's religious thoughts and ideas, drawn from many sources - Christian, Jewish, Indian, Greek and Hindu - and focusing on suffering and redemption. It brings the reader face to face with the profoundest levels of existence as Weil explores the relationship of the human conditio ...Show more
Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks by Simone Weil
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
In Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks Weil apply her unique, piercing intellect to early Greek thought, where she finds precursors to Christianity. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Christopher Hamilton. Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and ...Show more
Oppression and Liberty by Simone Weil
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Classics Ser.
Oppression and Libertyis one of Simone Weil's most important books on political theory.Here she discusses political and social oppression, its permanent causes, the way it works and its contemporary forms. Simone Weil's writings on oppression and liberty continue to be as valid and thought-provoking tod ...Show more
Simone Weil: An Anthology by Simone Weil; Sian Miles (Foreword by, Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. This anthology spans the wide range of her thought, and includes an extract from her best-known work The Need for Roots,exploring the ways in which modern society ...Show more
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind by Simone Weil; T. S. Eliot (Foreword by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being by Simone Weil
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work- a political, philosophical, and spiritual treatiseOne of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil has been described by Andre Gide as 'the patron saint of all outsiders' and by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time ...Show more
The Power of Words by Simone Weil
$9.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipul ...Show more
Waiting for God by Simone Weil
$25.00 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion
Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An e ...Show more
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