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A masterpiece … Today it retains an eerie prescience. Looking to the past, Weil spoke to future generations who would feel, as she did, that history is a trap we only half understand … luminous -- Madoc Cairns * TLS *
One of the most important writings of a unique, flawed and controversial genius, this book warns that modern societies will only be able to resist fascism by a wholesale spring-cleaning of our political imagination in the light of spiritual practice. An excellent, lucid and readable new translation -- Rowan Williams
This is one of those books which ought to be studied by the young before their leisure has been lost and their capacity for thought destroyed; books the effect of which, we can only hope, will become apparent in the attitude of mind of another generation -- T. S. Eliot
The patron saint of all outsiders -- André Gide
The only great spirit of our time -- Albert Camus

The Need for Roots

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    A Paperback / softback by Simone Weil, Ros Schwartz, Kate Kirkpatrick

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 26 October 2023
      ISBN-13 9780241467978
      978-0241467978
      ISBN-10 0241467977
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      Non Fiction Politics, Philosophy & Society Philosophy Social and political philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      A masterpiece … Today it retains an eerie prescience. Looking to the past, Weil spoke to future generations who would feel, as she did, that history is a trap we only half understand … luminous -- Madoc Cairns * TLS *
      One of the most important writings of a unique, flawed and controversial genius, this book warns that modern societies will only be able to resist fascism by a wholesale spring-cleaning of our political imagination in the light of spiritual practice. An excellent, lucid and readable new translation -- Rowan Williams
      This is one of those books which ought to be studied by the young before their leisure has been lost and their capacity for thought destroyed; books the effect of which, we can only hope, will become apparent in the attitude of mind of another generation -- T. S. Eliot
      The patron saint of all outsiders -- André Gide
      The only great spirit of our time -- Albert Camus

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