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The Need for Roots

The Need for Roots

The Need for Roots
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The Need for Roots Paper back - 2024

by WEIL, SIMONE

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  • Title The Need for Roots
  • Author WEIL, SIMONE
  • Binding PAPER BACK
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics
  • Publication date 2024-02-13
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Prakash-9780241467978
  • ISBN 9780241467978 / 0241467977
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.8 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Social psychology, Social ethics
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.372
  • Quantity available 500

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From the publisher

French philosopher Simone Weil's best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environment

A Penguin Classic

One of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil has been described by Andr Gide as "the patron saint of all outsiders" and by Albert Camus as "the only great spirit of our time." In this, her most famous work, she diagnoses the malaise at the heart of modern life: uprootedness, from the past and from community. Written towards the end of World War II for the Free French Army, Weil's work is an indispensable and perpetually intriguing text for readers and students of philosophy everywhere. The book discusses the political, cultural and spiritual currents that ought to be nurtured so that people have access to sources of energy which will help them lead fulfilling, joyful and morally good lives.

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  • Library Journal, 02/01/2024, Page 71

About the author

Simone Weil Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a French political activist, mystic, and a singular figure in French philosophy. She studied at the elite cole Normale Suprieure, obtained her agrgation (teaching diploma) in philosophy in 1931, worked at Renault from 1934 to 1935, enlisted in the International Brigades in 1936 and worked as a farm laborer in 1941. She left France in 1942 for New York and then London, where she worked for General de Gaulle's Free French movement. Most of her works, published posthumously, consist of some notebooks and a collection of religious essays. They include, in English, Waiting for God (1951), Gravity and Grace (1952), The Need for Roots (1952), Notebooks (2 vol., 1956), Oppression and Liberty (1958), and Selected Essays, 1934-1943 (1962).

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