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Simone Weil - Mystic of Passion and Compassion (Paperback)
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Simone Weil - Mystic of Passion and Compassion (Paperback)
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Loot Price R533
Discovery Miles 5 330
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In Simone Weil, Maria Clara Bingemer reflects on the life, work,
and legacy of an exceptional and enigmatic woman: the philosopher
and French Jewish mystic of the same name. It constitutes a
testimony so unique that it is impossible to ignore. In a Europe
where authoritarian regimes were dominant and heading, in a
sinister manner, toward WWII, this woman of fragile health but
indomitable spirit denounced the contradictions of the capitalist
system, the brutality of Nazism, and the paradox of bourgeois
thought. At the same time, her spiritual journey was one of zeal
and sorrow - that of a true mystic - but her radical intransigence
and passion for freedom kept her from fully committing to the
institutional church. Curious and insatiable, she wanted to
experience, in the flesh, the suff ering of society's least
fortunate and the truths of other religions. The reader will need
to develop a discerning empathy for Simone Weil's sensibility,
beyond her particular passion and zeal, in order to appreciate her
in depth. But undeniable are this truly singular woman's
authenticity, her capacity to suffer, her identification with the
other, her inner passion, and her almost magical perception of the
depths of the human spirit. And that is why her story merits being
told as that of one of the great witnesses of our age.
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