Seventy Letters

by Simone Weil, Richard Rees (Translator), Eric O Springsted (Foreword by)

Overview

Throughout her life, Simone Weil was a constant letter writer and Seventy Letters contains a fair and important selection of them. Many of them are biographically important, as they are written to friends and to her family, especial to her brother, André. But they also give many important clues to Weil's own thinking on social and philosophical matters. In her later letters, her urgent concerns about her project for a frontline corps of nurses is obvious. In earlier ones, she not only shows her deep concern for social issues, but also raises issues about intellectual matters. These letters and others are particularly important for understanding her thinking on intellectual culture, philosophy, and science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498239202
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	12/22/2015
Series:	Simone Weil: Selected Works
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the twentieth century's most profound thinkers. In her early years, she was known for her brilliant and biting social commentary, and especially for the year she spent working in three Paris factories. After three profound religious experiences, she did not abandon her work on social problems, but also began to write truly original and penetrating religious and philosophical works that still bear on our times, writings that were only published after her death.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword iv

Foreword ix

Part I 1931-1937

1 To a colleague, 1931 or 1932 1

2 To Émile Auguste Chartier, 1933(?) 3

3 To X, 1933 or 1934 (c.o.) 6

4 To a pupil, 1934 7

5 To a pupil, 1935 (c.o.) 10

6 To Albertine Thévenon, 1935 (c.o.) 14

7 To Boris Souvarine, 1935 (c.o.) 17

8-9 To Albertine Thévenon, 1935 (c.o.) 19

10-20 To B., 1936 (co.) 23

21 From B. to S.W., 1936 (c.o.) 53

22 To B., 1936 (c.o.) 53

23-25 To Auguste Detæuf, 1936-7 (c.o.) 55

26 From Auguste Detæuf to S.W., 1937 (c.o.) 64

Part II 1937-1942

27-28 To Jean Posternak, 1937 72

29 To her mother, 1937 79

30-32 To Jean Posternak, 1937-8 82

33 To Gaston Bergery, 1938 (E.H.P.) 96

34 To an Oxford poet, 1938 102

35 To Georges Bernanos, 1938 (E.H.P.) 105

36 To Jean Giraudoux, 1939 or 1940 (E.H.P.) 110

37-39 To A.W., 1940 112

40 To Edoardo Volterra, 1940 127

41 To Déodat Roché, 1941 (P.S.O.) 129

42 To Admiral Leahy, 1941 132

43 To A.W. (1941-2) 133

44 To Joë Bousquet, 1942 (p.s.o.) 136

Part III 1942-1943

45-47 To Maurice Schumann, 1942 (E.L.) 144

48 To Jean Wahl, 1942 157

49-52 To her parents, 1942-3 (E.L.) 161

53 To Maurice Schumann, 1943 (E.L.) 169

54-56 To her parents, 1943 (E.L.) 179

57 To André Weil, 1943 (E.L.) 184

58-69 To her parents, 1943 (E.L.) 185

Index 203

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From the Publisher

"The reprinting of English translations of Simone Weil's First and Last Notebooks, Selected Essays and Seventy Letters will be welcomed by the growing number of readers and scholars who are not at home in the original French and who wish to deepen their understanding of Weil's political philosophy and mystical theology."
—Lawrence E. Schmidt, Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto

Editorial Reviews

The reprinting of English translations of Simone Weil's First and Last Notebooks, Selected Essays and Seventy Letters will be welcomed by the growing number of readers and scholars who are not at home in the original French and who wish to deepen their understanding of Weil's political philosophy and mystical theology.
--Lawrence E. Schmidt, Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto

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