Gravity and Grace,9780803298002

Gravity and Grace

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ISBN13: 9780803298002
ISBN10: 0803298005
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-12-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Summary

Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when she died young in 1943. Four years later the philosopher-farmer Gustave Thibon compiled La pesanteur et la grace from the notebooks she left in his keeping. In 1952 this English translation accelerated the fame and influence of Simone Weil. The striking aphorisms inGravity and Gracereflect the religious philosophy of Weil's last years. Written at the onset of World War II, when her health was deteriorating and her left-wing social activism was giving way to spiritual introspection, this masterwork makes clear why critics have called Simone Weil "a great soul who might have become a saint" and "the Outsider as saint, in an age of alienation."

Author Biography

Introducer Thomas R. Nevin is a professor of classical studies at John Carroll University and the author of Simone Weil: Portrait of a Self-Exiled Jew.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION vii
Thomas R. Nevin
INTRODUCTION 3(46)
Gustave Thibon
VOID AND COMPENSATION
49(6)
TO ACCEPT THE VOID
55(2)
DETACHMENT
57(5)
IMAGINATION WHICH FILLS THE VOID
62(3)
RENUNCIATION OF TIME
65(2)
TO DESIRE WITHOUT AN OBJECT
67(4)
THE SELF
71(7)
DECREATION
78(9)
SELF-EFFACEMENT
87(3)
NECESSITY AND OBEDIENCE
90(9)
ILLUSIONS
99(10)
IDOLATRY
109(2)
LOVE
111(8)
EVIL
119(12)
AFFLICTION
131(6)
VIOLENCE
137(2)
THE CROSS
139(6)
BALANCE AND LEVER
145(2)
THE IMPOSSIBLE
147(4)
CONTRADICTION
151(6)
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE NECESSARY AND THE GOOD
157(3)
CHANCE
160(2)
HE WHOM WE MUST LOVE IS ABSENT
162(5)
ATHEISM AS A PURIFICATION
167(2)
ATTENTION AND WILL
169(8)
TRAINING
177(5)
INTELLIGENCE AND GRACE
182(6)
READINGS
188(3)
THE RING OF GYGES
191(3)
MEANING OF THE UNIVERSE
194(6)
METAXU
200(4)
BEAUTY
204(5)
ALGEBRA
209(3)
THE SOCIAL IMPRINT
212(4)
THE GREAT BEAST
216(7)
SOCIAL HARMONY
223(9)
THE MYSTICISM OF WORK
232

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