Gravity and Grace

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"A book of Pascalian pensees, touching on many phases of the intellectual and spiritual worlds. Written in prose which is as unadorned as a geometry theorem, it bears clear personal traces of the young genius who was half icy intellectual, half mystic."-New York Times. "In these private reflections, at once pregnant and precise, and all springing out of painful depths of experience, mental pride is transmuted into spiritual insight."-Manchester Guardian. 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 grâce from the notebooks she left in his keeping. In 1952 this English translation accelerated the fame and influence of Simone Weil. The striking aphorisms in Gravity and Grace reflect 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." 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.
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New York Times
“A book of Pascalian pensees, touching on many phases of the intellectual and spiritual worlds. Written in prose which is as unadorned as a geometry theorem, it bears clear personal traces of the young genius who was half icy intellectual, half mystic.”—New York Times
Manchester Guardian
“In these private reflections, at once pregnant and precise, and all springing out of painful depths of experience, mental pride is transmuted into spiritual insight.”—Manchester Guardian
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415290005
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 10/1/2002
  • Series: Routledge Classics Series
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 5.30 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Simone Weil (1909-1943). One of the most original philosophical, religious and political thinkers of the twentieth century.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Gravity and Grace 1
Void and Compensation 5
To accept the Void 10
Detachment 12
Imagination Which Fills the Void 16
Renunciation of Time 19
To Desire Without an Object 22
The Self 26
Decreation 32
Self-Effacement 40
Necessity and Obedience 43
Illusions 51
Idolatry 60
Love 62
Evil 69
Affliction 80
Violence 85
The Cross 87
Balance and Lever 92
The Impossible 94
Contradiction 98
The Distance Between the Necessary and the Good 104
Chance 107
He Whom We Must Love is Absent 109
Atheism as a Purification 114
Attention and Will 116
Training 123
Intelligence and Grace 128
Readings 134
The Ring of Gyges 137
Meaning of the Universe 140
Metaxu 145
Beauty 148
Algebra 152
The Social Imprint 155
Israel 159
The Great Beast 164
Social Harmony 170
The Mysticism of Work 178
Postscript, Fifty Years Later 182
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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 8, 2006

    Simone Weil: Gravity and Grace - A view of true depth

    Gravity and Grace: Interesting but esoteric. The terminology and vernalular left me with my head spinning. The philosophical depth at which miss Weil comprehended life and its beauties is rare and has almost dissipated in today's society. Read the book for general interests on the soul, salvation and redemption or if for no other reason, read it to renounce miss Weil's name.

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