Simone Weil: An Introduction to Her Thought - Hardcover

Hellman, John

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ISBN 10: 0889201218 ISBN 13: 9780889201217

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1983

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“The generation of 1930 in French intellectual life was unique in the gravity of the challenges they faced.” Simone Weil―the brilliant social and political theorist, activist, and spiritual writer―was one of an eminent company in the France of the 1930s who responded to these challenges. In her brief, remarkable life she wrote a host of essays and letters and filled several notebooks with reflections. Hellman’s volume sets out the single...

About the Author

John Hellman, a member of the History Department at McGill University, is an associate editor of Cross Currents and the author of Emmanuel Mounier and the New Catholic Left, 1930–1950 and of articles on modern European intellectual, political, and religious history. He holds the Ph.D. degree from Harvard University.

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"Such a clearly conceived and written book as Hellman's study of Simone Weil's thought will be essential to those making a first approach to this unique and gifted writer and to those seeking elucidation of her ideas." (French Review)

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