The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind by Simone Weil

The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

Simone Weil

320 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics religion informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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