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Simone Weil - Mystic of Passion and Compassion (Paperback) Loot Price: R563
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Simone Weil - Mystic of Passion and Compassion (Paperback): Maria Clara Bingemer

Simone Weil - Mystic of Passion and Compassion (Paperback)

Maria Clara Bingemer; Translated by Karen M Kraft

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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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Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2015
First published: 2015
Authors: Maria Clara Bingemer
Translators: Karen M Kraft
Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 978-0-7188-9426-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Religious & spiritual
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian religious experience > Christian mysticism
Books > Biography > Religious & spiritual
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian religious experience > Christian mysticism
Books > Christianity > Christian Religious Experience > Christian mysticism
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LSN: 0-7188-9426-X
Barcode: 9780718894269

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