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Simone Weil

Born

in Paris, France

February 03, 1909

Died

August 24, 1943

Genre

Religion & Spirituality, Politics, Philosophy

Influences

Plato, Socrates, René Guénon, Alain, ...more

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Simone Weil was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist. Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany. Her brilliance, ascetic lifestyle, introversion, and eccentricity limited her ability to mix with others, but not to teach and participate in political movements of her time. She wrote extensively with both insight and breadth about political movements of which she was a part and later about spiritual mysticism. Weil biographer Gabriella Fiori writes that Weil was "a moral genius in the orbit of ethics, a genius of immense revolutionary range". ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 19,280 ratings · 2,762 reviews · 334 distinct works • Similar authors

	Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil, Gustave Thibon (Editor), Emma Crawford (Translator), Mario von der Ruhr (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 3,749 ratings — published 1947 — 134 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting for God 4.17 avg rating — 2,854 ratings — published 1950 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil, Simon Leys (Translator), Czesław Miłosz (Contributor) 4.04 avg rating — 1,798 ratings — published 1957 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind by Simone Weil, Arthur Wills (Translator), T.S. Eliot (Preface) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,303 ratings — published 1949 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War and the Iliad by Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff, Mary McCarthy (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 916 ratings — published 1940 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oppression and Liberty 4.06 avg rating — 881 ratings — published 1934 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iliad, or The Poem of Force 4.22 avg rating — 776 ratings — published 1940 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La persona e il sacro by Simone Weil, Maria Concetta Sala (Editor) 3.97 avg rating — 797 ratings — published 1943 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simone Weil: An Anthology by Simone Weil, Siân Miles (Editor) 4.34 avg rating — 605 ratings — published 1986 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letter to a Priest really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 1951 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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