The Simone Weil reader

About this book

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a teacher classical scholar philosopher political activist and seeker of the truth. She confronted the rootlessness of modern life and the death of the spirit in an age of materialism. Her writing was visionary and her vision radical.Born in France a contemporary of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus Weil inspired T.S. Eliot to say of her "We must simply expose ourselves to the personality of a woman of genius of a kind of genius akin to that of a saint." Today nearly sixty years after her death her work has perhaps an even greater immediacy and relevance. This book is a collection of the best of her writings from The Notebooks of Simone Weil Oppression and Liberty and Gravity and Grace.