The Notebooks of Simone Weil

By Simone Weil

Book Overview

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a defining figure of the twentieth century; a philosopher, Christian, resistance fighter, anarchist, feminist, Labour activist and teacher. She was described by T. S. Eliot... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00CH2B7E2
• Release Date: January 1956
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

don't judge a book by its cover

Yes, the binding is cheap, and the price is exorbitant. Yes, the publisher ought to be ashamed. But the content of Simone Weil's notebooks far outweigh the slipshod production. Weil remains one of the greatest interwar thinkers, with a brilliant mind, and a saint-like intensity for the pursuit of truth, beauty and kenotic love. The works of Levinas, Agamben, Canada's George Parkin Grant and a host of other postwar thinkers, French or otherwise, would be unthinkable without Weil. As such, this book deserves more than the one star given by an earlier reviewer. I give it five stars just to even out the overall average.