The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind (平装) 0415271029

在线阅读本书 In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual. Review 'We must simply expose ourselves to the personality of a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of the saints.' - T.S. Eliot in the Preface 'What is required if men and women are to feel at home in society and are to recover their vitality? Into wrestling with that question, Simone Weil put the very substance of her mind and temperament. The apparently solid edifices of our prepossessions fall down before her onslaught like ninepins, and she is as fertile and forthright in her positive suggestions . . . she can be relied upon to toss aside the superficial and to come to grips with the essential and the profound.' - Times Literary Supplement We must simply expose ourselves to the personality of a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of the saints. - T.S. Eliot in the Preface What is required if men and women are to feel at home in society and are to recover their vitality? Into wrestling with that question, Simone Weil put the very substance of her mind and temperament. The apparently solid edifices of our prepossessions fall down before her onslaught like ninepins, and she is as fertile and forthright in her positive suggestions . . . she can be relied upon to toss aside the superficial and to come to grips with the essential and the profound. - Times Literary Supplement Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the most important social, religious and moral philosophers of this century. Her books include Gravity and Grace and Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks, both published by Routledge.

出版社	Routledge
作者	Simone Weil