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Simone Weil (Paperback, New)
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Simone Weil (Paperback, New)
Series: Critical Lives
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List price R374
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Simone Weil, legendary French philosopher, mystic and political
activist who died in England in 1943 at the age of thirty-four,
belongs to a select group of thinkers: as with St Augustine, Pascal
and Nietzsche, so with Weil a single phrase can permanently change
one's life. In this book, Palle Yourgrau follows Weil on her life's
journey, from her philosophical studies at the Ecole Normale
Superieure, to her years as a Marxist labour organizer, her
explosive encounter with Leon Trotsky, her abortive attempt to
fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, her mystical
experience in the town of Assisi. We see how Weil's struggle to
make sense of a world consumed by despotism and war culminated in
her monumental attempt, following St Augustine, to re-imagine
Christianity along Platonistic lines, to find a bridge between
human suffering and divine perfection. How seriously, however,
should Weil's ideas be taken? They were admired by Albert Camus and
T. S. Eliot, yet Susan Sontag wrote famously that 'I can't imagine
more than a handful of the tens of thousands of readers she has won
...really share her ideas.' If this is really true, Palle Yourgrau
must count as one of the handful. Though he brings to life the
pathos of Weil's tragi-comic journey, Yourgrau devotes equal
attention to the question of truth. He shines a bright light on the
paradox of Simone Weil: at once a kind of modern saint, and a bete
noire, a Jew accused of having abandoned her own people in their
hour of greatest need. The result is a critical biography that is
in places as disturbing as Weil's own writings, an account that
confronts head-on her controversial critique of the Hebrew Bible,
as well as her radical rejection of the received wisdom that the
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