Simone Weil: Portrait of a Self-exiled JewUniv of North Carolina Press, 1991 - 488 pagine Over fifty years after her death, Simone Weil (1909-1943) remains one of the most searching religious inquirers and political thinkers of the twentieth century. Albert Camus said she had a "madness for truth." She rejected her Jewishness and developed a s |
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A Short Biography Notes on an Itinerant Slave | 1 |
The Education of Simone Weil | 37 |
Le Maitre | 39 |
Descent into the Cave Weils Works and Days in French Syndicalism 19311936 | 57 |
Between the Bullet and the Lie | 97 |
Philosophical Problems | 123 |
On Necessity Divine and Dire | 125 |
Beauty Bread of the Soul Weils Aesthetics Her Poetry and Drama | 148 |
A Stranger unto Her People Weil on Judaism | 235 |
Waiting with Vichy for God | 260 |
Resolutions | 309 |
Prefaces to Lenracinement | 311 |
Lenracinement | 355 |
Inconclusions | 384 |
Notes | 393 |
Bibliographical Essay | 453 |
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