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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 gr ce from the notebooks she left in his keeping. In 1952 this English... Read Full Overview

Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become... Read Full Overview

On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.

Gravity and Grace shows 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... Read Full Overview

Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become... Read Full Overview

La pesanteur et la gr ce de Simone Weil est une oeuvre philosophique profonde et saisissante qui explore les tensions fondamentales de l'existence humaine. Publi titre posthume en 1947, ce recueil de pens es et d'aphorismes offre une plong e vertigineuse dans la r flexion... Read Full Overview

Este libro re ne quiz s los textos m s ntimos de Simone Weil. El amor y la desgracia se entrelazan con las dos fuerzas que, seg n Weil, organizan todos nuestros comportamientos: la gravedad y la gracia. Escritos entre 1941 y 1942, estos textos fragmentarios... Read Full Overview

"Gravity and Grace" was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the priest to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have... Read Full Overview

Tous les mouvements naturels de l' me sont r gis par des lois analogues celles de la pesanteur mat rielle. La gr ce seule fait exception. Il faut toujours s'attendre ce que les choses se passent conform ment la pesanteur, sauf intervention du surnaturel. Deux forces... Read Full Overview