She was called a modern saint and "the patroness of all outcasts." Albert Camus regarded her as "the only great spirit of our time." A pacifist and participant in the Spanish Civil War, a mystic and activist of the labor...
movement, a radical Christian thinker who was baptized only shortly before her death. Behind this flow of paradoxes lies an astonishing integrity: in her quest to live by her ideals, she went further than anyone else.
The book by American historian Robert Zaretsky reveals five key ideas of Simone Weil — misfortune, attention, resistance, rootedness, and goodness — and shows why they are needed now, in an era of haste, noise, and indifference, more than ever.
She was called a modern saint and "the patroness of all outcasts." Albert Camus regarded her as "the only great spirit of our time." A pacifist and participant in the Spanish Civil War, a mystic and activist of the labor movement, a radical Christian thinker who was baptized only shortly before her death. Behind this flow of paradoxes lies an astonishing integrity: in her quest to live by her ideals, she went further than anyone else.
The book by American historian Robert Zaretsky reveals five key ideas of Simone Weil — misfortune, attention, resistance, rootedness, and goodness — and shows why they are needed now, in an era of haste, noise, and indifference, more than ever.
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