{"product_id":"the-simone-weil-reader-9780880290029","title":"The Simone Weil reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eSimone 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647248195637,"sku":"ByrdShop_0880290021","price":480.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780880290029.jpg?v=1781690675","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-simone-weil-reader-9780880290029","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}