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Simone Weil as we knew her


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In 1941 Simone Weil was introduced to Father Jean-Marie Perrin, a priest of the Dominican order whose friendship became one of the most significant influences on her spiritual development. It was for Father Perrin that she wrote her 'spiritual autobiography', contained in Waiting for God , and to him that she later wrote ' Letter to a Priest' . When Weil requested work as a field hand, Perrin sent her to Gustave Thibon, a farmer and Christian philosopher. From 1941-2, Weil stayed with the Thibon family, working in the fields by day while writing by night the notebooks which posthumously became Gravity and Grace and other seminal works. Perrin and Thibon met Weil at a time when her interior life and her creative genius were at the height of their glowing maturity. During the short but deep period of their acquaintance with her, they came to know her as she actually was. Their accounts of this time reveal her to us in the bare parlour of the Dominican convent at Marseilles where, after waiting her turn among a stream of refugees, she discussed her personal problems with Father Perrin. They show her to us in the vineyards of Ard?che, and on the stone seat by the fountain overlooking the Rhone valley where she read Plato to Thibon, her host. First published in 1953, and now newly introduced by Patricia Little, this unique portrait depicts Weil through the eyes of her friends, not as a strange and unaccountable genius but as an ardent and very human young person in search of truth and knowledge.

Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Original Work, Gustave Thibon; Part 1 Simone Weil in Her Religious Search, J.M. Perrin; Chapter 1 Foreword; Chapter 2 Biographical Notes; Chapter 3 Evil and Redemption; Chapter 4 The Question of Baptism; Chapter 5 Faith and Philosophy; Chapter 6 The Church, Mystical and Social; Chapter 7 Syncretism and Catholicity; Chapter 8 Personal Problems; Chapter 9 The Last Months; Chapter 10 Spiritual Significance; Chapter 11 Her Message; Chapter 12 The Great Request; Part 2 Part Two, Gustave Thibon; Chapter 13 How Simone Weil Appeared to Me; Chapter 14 Vertigo of the Absolute; Chapter 15 On the Threshold of the Church;

About the Author :
Joseph-Marie Perrin (1905-2002) was a Dominican priest and French Resistance worker. His books include Mary, Mother of Christ and Christians. Gustave Thibon (1903-2001) a native of the Ardèche, received the 'Grand Prix de'l Acadèmie Française for literature in 1964, and for philosophy in 2000. J. P. Little, of St Patrick's University College, Dublin, is author of Simone Weil on Colonialism (2003) and Simone Weil: Waiting on Truth (1988).

Review :
'This is brilliant writing about a mercurial and paradoxical philosopher.' - The Scientific and Medical Network ' ... it's extremely interesting, challenging and erudite ... Highly recommended if you have an interest in philosophy, syncretism, mysticism or Catholicism ... ' - Jill Szutenberg, York Languages Exchange


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415306430
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 184
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0415306434
  • Publisher Date: 09 Oct 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 296 gr


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