Gravity & Grace - Paperback
Gravity & Grace - Paperback
About this item
by Simone Weil (Author), Arthur Wills (Translator), Gustave Thibon (Introduction by)
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 grâce 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 Biography
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.
Curated additions for your library
Tasting Coffee: An Inquiry into Objectivity - Paperback
Esoteric Lessons for the First Class of the Free School for Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum - Paperback
History Of The Kuykendall Family: Since Its Settlement In Dutch New York In 1646 (1919) - Hardcover
Clock Shavings - Paperback
