The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being by Simone Weil, Arthur Wills, T.S. Eliot
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being
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Simone Weil, Arthur Wills, T.S. Eliot
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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being

Simone Weil, Arthur Wills, T.S. Eliot

320 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics religion informative reflective slow-paced

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One of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil has been described by André Gide as 'the patron saint of all outsiders' and by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time'. In this, her most famous work, she diagnos...

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