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At Home with André and Simone Weil (Paperback)
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Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry, Simone Weil was one of
the twentieth century's most original philosopher-critics, and as a
result her legacy has been claimed by many. This memoir by Weil's
niece is strong-willed and incisive and as close as we are likely
to get to the real Simone Weil. Born into a freethinking Jewish
family, Weil contributed many articles to Socialist and Communist
journals and was active in the Spanish Civil War until her health
failed. In 1940 she became strongly attracted to Roman
Catholicism and the Passion of Christ. Most of her works, published
posthumously, continue to inform debates in ethics, philosophy, and
spirituality surrounding questions of sacrifice, asceticism, and
the virtues of manual labor. Massively influential, Weil's writings
were widely praised by such readers as Albert Camus, T. S. Eliot,
Simone de Beauvoir, Pope John XXIII, Czeslaw Milosz, and Susan
Sontag. Sylvie Weil recovers the deeply Jewish nature of Simone's
thinking and details how her preoccupations with charity and
justice were fully in the tradition of tzedakah, the Jewish
religious obligation toward these actions.Using previously
unpublished family correspondence and conversations, Sylvie Weil
offers a more authentically personal portrait of her aunt than
previous biographers have provided. At Home with AndrÉ and Simone
Weil illuminates Simone's relationship to her family, especially to
her brother, the great Princeton mathematician AndrÉ Weil. A
clear-eyed and uncompromising memoir of her family, At Home with
AndrÉ and Simone Weil is a fresh look at the noted French
philosopher,mystic, and social activist.
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