[PDF] On Science Necessity And The Love Of God Essays Collected Translated And Edited By Richard Rees eBook

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0674298330

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The inspiring letters of philosopher, mystic, and freedom fighter Simone Weil to her family, presented for the first time in English. Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows, searching for her spiritual home while bearing witness to the violence that devastated Europe twice in her brief lifetime. The letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and ever-shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays. The first complete collection of Weil’s missives to her family, A Life in Letters offers new insight into her personal relationships and experiences. The letters abound with vivid illustrations of a life marked by wisdom as much as seeking. The daughter of a bourgeois Parisian Jewish family, Weil was a troublemaking idealist who preferred the company of miners and Russian exiles to that of her peers. An extraordinary scholar of history and politics, she ultimately found a home in Christian mysticism. Weil paired teaching with poetry and even dabbled in mathematics, as evidenced by her correspondence with her brother, André, who won the Kyoto Prize in 1994 for the famed Weil Conjectures. A Life in Letters depicts Simone Weil’s thought taking shape amid political turmoil, as she describes her participation in the Spanish struggle against fascism and in the transatlantic resistance to the Nazis. An introduction and notes by Robert Chenavier contextualize the letters historically and intellectually, relating Weil’s letters to her general body of writing. This book is an ideal entryway into Weil’s philosophical insights, one for both neophytes and acolytes to treasure.

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 1978-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521293334

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Derived from Weil's lectures, the collection presents a general introduction to philosophy, ranging widely over problems about perception, mind, language, and reasoning, as well as problems in moral and political philosophy.

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :

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The immediate and guiding aim of this book is to introduce the contemporary reader to the work and thought of Simone Weil.

Author : Mark Van Steenwyk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532676794

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In unKingdom, Mark Van Steenwyk takes a hard look at the ways Christianity has become complicit in imperialism and genocide, particularly in North America. With a blend of humility, wit, and sharp critique, he proposes a prophetic way forward through practices of revolutionary repentance.

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742522831

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Twentieth-century French philosopher Simone Weil's complete writings on colonialism are collected and translated into English in this volume. Visit our website for sample chapters!