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The Need for Roots (Routledge Classics): Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
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Product Description
In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #202209 in Books
- Published on: 2001-10-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'The best spiritual writer of this century.' - André Gide
From the Back Cover
Hailed by André Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1943, the final year of her life, unable to join the resistance movement in France, she worked in London for the Free French government in exile. Here she was commissioned to outline a plan for the renewal of Europe after the scourge of Nazism. The Need for Roots was the direct result. In it she seized the opportunity to denounce the false values of contemporary civilization. In the cult of materialism she witnessed a devastating loss of spirit and consequently of human values. To counteract this she sets out a radical vision for spiritual and political renewal with a passion for truth which sweeps through these pages. The book has become a lasting spiritual testament for our age, where we are confronted, as T.S. Eliot comments, by a genius akin to that of the saints.
About the Author
Simone Weil (1909-1943). A political theorist and activist, a revolutionary and a philosopher and religious mystic. She starved herself to death in protest against the Nazi occupation of France.
