Gravity and Grace

Simone Weil

ISBN 10: 071002262X / ISBN 13: 9780710022622

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1972

About this Item

8vo. 160p. Hardcover. Owner's stamp on front page. Some yellowing of pages due to age. Browning to upper text block (see image). page 131 has a slight tear (does not really affect readability). Good condition.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1770137031993

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gravity and Grace
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071002262X
• ISBN 13: 9780710022622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition - by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1952 - this Routledge Classics edition offers English readers the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever, by incorporating a specially commissioned translation of the controversial chapter on Israel. Also previously untranslated is Gustave Thibon's postscript of 1990, which reminds us how privileged we are to be able to read a work which offers each reader such 'light for the spirit and nourishment for the soul'. This is a book that no one with a serious interest in the spiritual life can afford to be without.

About the Author

Simone Weil (1909-1943). One of the most original philosophical, religious and political thinkers of the twentieth century.