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  • Love in the Void

    Where God Finds Us

    by Simone Weil ...
    Series series Plough Spiritual Guides
    Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and confounding insights into faith and doubt, continues to speak to today’s spiritual seekers? Was it her social radicalism, which led her to renounce privilege? Her ambivalence toward institutional religion? Her combination of philosophical rigor ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Need for Roots

    Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being

    by Simone Weil ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could beWhat do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone Weil, one of the foremost philosophers of the last century, envisaged us all as being bound by unconditional, eternal obligations towards every other human being. In The Need for Roots, her most famous work, she argued ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Gravity and Grace

    by Simone Weil, Carlos Kennedy ...
    Gravity and Grace is a profound and thought-provoking book by French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil, first published posthumously in 1947. The work is a collection of her reflections, aphorisms, and meditations, offering a deep exploration of the human condition, the tension between materiality and spirituality, and the path toward transcendence.Weil’s reflections are deeply rooted in her ... Read more

    $9.96 USD

  • On the Abolition of All Political Parties

    by Simone Weil, Czeslaw Milosz ...
    Translated by Simon Leys ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL: Simone Weil’s searing argument against partisan politics will speak to modern U.S. citizens who are fed up with Congressional infighting and legislative deadlock.“One of the most brilliant and original minds of 20th-century France.” —The New York TimesSimone Weil—philosopher, activist, mystic—is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In “On the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Waiting for God

    by Simone Weil ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    '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 editionSimone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist who worked ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks

    by Simone Weil ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    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 variety of subjects, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Simone Weil

    Late Philosophical Writings

    by Simone Weil, Eric O. Springsted ...
    Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909–43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such disciplines as sociology, history, political science, religious studies, French studies, and women’s studies are often ignorant of or baffled by her philosophical investigations. In Simone Weil: Late ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Life in Letters

    by Simone Weil, Marie-Noël Chenavier-Jullien, Annette Devaux, Olivier Rey ...
    Translated by Nicholas Elliott ...
    The inspiring letters of philosopher, mystic, and freedom fighter Simone Weil to her family, presented for the first time in English.Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows, searching for her spiritual home while bearing witness to the violence that devastated Europe twice in her brief lifetime. The letters she wrote to her parents and brother ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • Dharma and Detachment: Writings on Indian and Tibetan Thought

    by 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, religion and spirituality, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Living Up to the Ads

    Gender Fictions of the 1920s

    by Simone Weil Davis ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture’s impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry introduced three new metaphors for personhood—the ad man, the female consumer, and the often female advertising model or spokesperson—Davis traces the emergence of the pervasive gendering of American ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Need for Roots

    Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

    by Simone Weil ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    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 after the war. In ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Venice Saved

    by Simone Weil ...
    Translated by Philip Wilson, Silvia Caprioglio Panizza ...
    Towards the end of her life, the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (1909-43) was working on a tragedy, Venice Saved. Appearing here in English for the first time, this play explores the realisation of Weil's own thoughts on tragedy. A figure of affliction, a central theme in Weil's religious metaphysics, the central character offers a unique insight into Weil's broader philosophical ... Read more

    $21.99 USD