Gravity and Grace

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Simone Weil
Gravity ^.n;
Grace
First complete English language edition
With an introduction and postscript by GustaveThibon
'At the twilight of a century whose accelerated history has led to the rise and fall of so many idols, this book Increasingly appears like a message from eternity.' Gustave Thibon
Gravity and Grace was the first-ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weii GustaveThibon, to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death in 1943, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that has become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition - by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1952 ~ this Routledge Classics edition offers English readers the complete text of this landmark work for the first time, by incorporating a specially commissioned translation of the controversial chapter on Israel. Also previously untranslated is Gustave... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Simone Weil
Gravity ^.n;
Grace
First complete English language edition
With an introduction and postscript by GustaveThibon
'At the twilight of a century whose accelerated history has led to the rise and fall of so many idols, this book Increasingly appears like a message from eternity.' Gustave Thibon
Gravity and Grace was the first-ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weii GustaveThibon, to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death in 1943, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that has become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition - by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1952 ~ this Routledge Classics edition offers English readers the complete text of this landmark work for the first time, by incorporating a specially commissioned translation of the controversial chapter on Israel. Also previously untranslated is Gustave Thibon's postscript of 1990, which reminds us how privileged we are to be able to read a work which offers each reader such 'light for the spirit and nourishment for the soul.'This is a book that no one with a serious interest in the spiritual life can afford to be without
Simone Weil (1909-43). One of the most original philosophical, religiousand political thinkers of the twentieth century. Vissza