The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards MankindRoutledge, 30 apr 2020 - 320 pagina's Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual. She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as human beings is to not let another suffer from hunger. Equally as important, however, is our duty towards our community: we may have declared various human rights, but we have overlooked the obligations and this has left us self-righteous and rootless. She could easily have been issuing a direct warning to us today, the citizens of Century 21. |
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... mind and temperament. The apparently solid edifices of our prepossessions fall down before her onslaught like ninepins.' The Times Literary Supplement Simone Weil The Need for Roots Prelude to a Declaration HALF-TITLE.
... mind of occasional flashes of inspiration. After reading Waiting on God2 and the present volume I saw that I must try to understand the personality of the author; and that the reading and re-reading of all of her work was necessary for ...
... mind, it was worthy of the soul which employed it. But the intellect, especially when bent upon such problems as those which harassed Simone Weil, can come to maturity only slowly; and we must not forget that Simone Weil died at the age ...
... mind of an historian. In her adulation of Greece, and of the 'wisdom of the East', as in her disparagement of Rome and Israel, she seems to me almost wilful. In one quarter she sees only what she can admire; in another, she repudiates ...
... mind. Simone Weil needs patience from her readers, as she doubtless needed patience from the friends who most admired and appreciated her. But in spite of the violence of her affections and antipathies, in spite of such unjustified ...
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