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A Life in Letters
Category:	Books > Biographies > Biographies
Author/Artist:	SIMONE WEIL
ISBN / ID:	9780674304949
Publisher:	Belknap Press
Binding:	PAPERBACK
Price:	AU$49.95

Description:	Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909-1943) lived largely in the shadows. The letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays. 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. A scholar of history and politics, she ultimately found a home in Christian mysticism. The first complete collection of Simone Weil's missives to her family vividly illustrates her thought taking shape as she joins the Spanish struggle against fascism and the resistance to the Nazis. An introduction and notes contextualize the letters historically and intellectually, providing an entryway into Weil's philosophical insights.

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