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Simone Weil fue ante todo filósofa. Y ello desde un principio. Pero ni sus temas fueron los más convencionales ni sobre todo lo fue su manera de abordarlos: un método de lectura de los textos filosóficos y literarios que aprendió de la mano de Alain (Émile Chartier). De la relación con su maestro dirá más tarde: Hay una parte de su pensamiento que he asimilado hasta el punto de no poder distinguirlo de mi propio pensamiento, y otra que he rechazado. Sobre todo quedará marcada por su exigencia de probidad intelectual, unida a la crítica incansable de las formas de poder.Aparte de los trabajos primeros surgidos en la clase de Alain entre 1925 y 1928, esta edición contiene los dos ensayos de 1929, De la percepción o la aventura de Proteo y Del tiempo, la memoria para el Diploma de Estudios Superiores de 1930, Ciencia y percepción en Descartes, y textos posteriores sobre asuntos como el trabajo o el derecho. Gracias a estos escritos vemos cómo se gesta un pensamiento y en qué medida ll

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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 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 ever, 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.

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Cuando leo el catecismo del concilio de Trento, me da la impresión de que no tengo nada en común con la religión que en él se expone. Cuando leo el Nuevo Testamento, los místicos, la liturgia, cuando veo celebrar misa, siento con alguna forma de certeza que esa fe es la mía o, más exactamente, que sería la mía sin la distancia que entre ella y yo pone mi imperfección....La carta que Simone Weil dirige al dominico Jean Couturier en 1942 tiene todavía hoy un valor excepcional. No sólo como testimonio del rigor intelectual y moral de su autora y de su insobornable compromiso con la verdad, sino como expresión de la tensión que enfrenta a la autenticidad de una fe vivida radicalmente con la esclerotización del dogma.

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Simone Weil sigue siendo una de las figuras más fascinantes del pensamiento religioso del siglo XX. Filósofa, activista y mística, intentó en varias ocasiones entrar en el mundo de los trabajadores y de los pobres. Aunque sus experiencias místicas la llevaron al umbral de la Iglesia católica, optó por no entrar en ella. La introducción de Eric O. Springsted y su selección de los escritos de S. Weil no son un recorrido cronológico por su obra, sino un valioso acceso a su vida y pensamiento a través de sus últimos trabajos.

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'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good'The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipulation of language by the powerful, the obligations of individuals to one another and the needs - for order, equality, liberty and truth - that make us human.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

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Estos once Cuadernos, conocidos también como los Cuadernos de Marsella, que Simone Weil entregó a Gustave Thibon en la primavera de 1942 antes de abandonar Francia, recogen anotaciones privadas realizadas entre 1933 y la fecha de su marcha. A partir de ellas, elaborándolas, podría haber redactado numerosos escritos, pero en su forma actual son abruptas y fragmentarias. Sin embargo, la lectura en la forma original en que Simone las dejó tiene la ventaja de introducirnos en el interior de una meditación incesante, nos permite atisbar la riqueza y complejidad del pensamiento y de los intereses de esta singular filósofa.

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Simone Weil (París, 1909-Londres, 1934) fue profesora de filosofía en varias ciudades francesas hasta que a finales de 1934 abandona su actividad docente y comienza a trabajar en diversas fábricas comprometida con el movimiento obrero. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y frente a su deseo de integrarse en la Resistencia, fue destinada a las labores burocráticas por los servicios de la Francia Libre. Su solidaridad con los franceses de la zona ocupada le lleva a negarse a comer más de lo que ellos comían; esta anorexia voluntaria agrava una recién diagnosticada tuberculosis.Escritos en Londres y últimas cartas recoge algunos de los textos que fueron escritos por Simone Weil en el último periodo de su vida. La gran parte de los estudios redactados se refieren a la reorganización de su país tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Las cartas enviadas a sus padres están escritas desde el hospital donde fue ingresada.Libros relacionados:A la espera de Dios de Simone Weil(2000) 4 edición

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The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil's letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens appreciation of one of the twentieth century's great thinkers by offering insight into her relationships, spiritual and occupational experiments, political commitments, restless mobility, and wide-ranging interests.

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Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and confounding insights into faith and doubt, continues to speak to today’s spiritual seekers? Was it her social radicalism, which led her to renounce privilege? Her ambivalence toward institutional religion? Her combination of philosophical rigor with the ardor of a mystic?Albert Camus called Simone Weil “the only great spirit of our time.” André Gide found her “the most truly spiritual writer of this century.” Her intense life and profound writings have influenced people as diverse as T. S. Eliot, Charles De Gaulle, Pope Paul VI, and Adrienne Rich.The body of work she left—most of it published posthumously—is the fruit of an anguished but ultimately luminous spiritual journey.After her untimely death at age thirty-four, Simone Weil quickly achieved legendary status among a whole generation of thinkers. Her radical idealism offered a corrective to consumer culture. But more importantly, she pointed the way, especially for those outside institutional religion, to encounter the love of God – in love to neighbor, love of beauty, and even in suffering.

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Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual. She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as human beings is to not let another suffer from hunger. Equally as important, however, is our duty towards our community: we may have declared various human rights, but we have overlooked the obligations and this has left us self-righteous and rootless. She could easily have been issuing a direct warning to us today, the citizens of Century 21.

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Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909–43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such disciplines as sociology, history, political science, religious studies, French studies, and women’s studies are often ignorant of or baffled by her philosophical investigations. In Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings, Eric O. Springsted presents a unique collection of Weil’s writings, one concentrating on her explicitly philosophical thinking. The essays are drawn chiefly from the time Weil spent in Marseille in 1940-42, as well as one written from London; most have been out of print for some time; three appear for the first time; all are newly translated. Beyond making important texts available, this selection provides the context for understanding Weil's thought as a whole. This volume is important not only for those with a general interest in Weil; it also specifically presents Weil as a philosopher, chiefly one interested in questions of the nature of value, moral thought, and the relation of faith and reason. What also appears through this judicious selection is an important confirmation that on many issues respecting the nature of philosophy, Weil, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard shared a great deal.

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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 grâce from the notebooks she left in his keeping. In 1952 this English translation accelerated the fame and influence of Simone Weil. The striking aphorisms in Gravity and Grace reflect the religious philosophy of Weil’s last years. Written at the onset of World War II, when her health was deteriorating and her left-wing social activism was giving way to spiritual introspection, this masterwork makes clear why critics have called Simone Weil “a great soul who might have become a saint” and “the Outsider as saint, in an age of alienation.”

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In 1931, Simone Weil read an article by Louis Roubaud in the Petit Parisien that exposed the Yen Bay massacre in Indochina. That article opened Weil's eyes, and from then until her death in exile in 1943, she cared most deeply about the French colonial situation. Weil refused to accept the contradiction between the image of France as champion of the rights of man and the reality of France's exploitation and oppression of the peoples in its territories. Weil wrote thirteen articles or letters about the situation, writings originally published in French journals or in French collections of her work. J. P. Little's fluid and clear translations finally introduce to English-speaking scholars and students this important element of Weil's political consciousness.

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In 1931, Simone Weil read an article by Louis Roubaud in the Petit Parisien that exposed the Yen Bay massacre in Indochina. That article opened Weil's eyes, and from then until her death in exile in 1943, she cared most deeply about the French colonial situation. Weil refused to accept the contradiction between the image of France as champion of the rights of man and the reality of France's exploitation and oppression of the peoples in its territories. Weil wrote thirteen articles or letters about the situation, writings originally published in French journals or in French collections of her work. J. P. Little's fluid and clear translations finally introduce to English-speaking scholars and students this important element of Weil's political consciousness.

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A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could beWhat do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone Weil, one of the foremost philosophers of the last century, envisaged us all as being bound by unconditional, eternal obligations towards every other human being. In The Need for Roots, her most famous work, she argued that our greatest need was to be rooted: in a community, a place, a shared past and collective future hopes. Written for the Free French movement while she was exiled in London during the Second World War, Weil's visionary combination of philosophy, politics and mysticism is her answer to the question of what life without occupation - and oppression - might be.'The patron saint of all outsiders' Andre Gide'The only great spirit of our time' Albert Camus Translated by Ros Schwartz, with an introduction by Kate Kirkpatrick.

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