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A Life in Letters
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By Simone Weil, Robert Chenavier (Editor), André A. Devaux (Editor), Marie-Noël Chenavier-Jullien (Contribution by), Annette Devaux (Contribution by), Olivier Rey (Contribution by), Nicholas Elliott (Translator)
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The inspiring letters of philosopher, mystic, and freedom fighter Simone Weil to her family, presented for the first time in English.
Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows. Assembled here, the letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays.
The daughter of a bourgeoi...
Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows. Assembled here, the letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays.
The daughter of a bourgeoi...