Letter to a Priest, 2nd Edition
$19.98
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2002
Summary
Letter to a Priest encapsulates the sharp wit and questioning nature of Simone Weil. Regarded by Susan Sontag as ‘one of the most uncompromising and troubling witnesses to the modern travail of the spirit’, Weil grips the moral imagination as few others before or since. She was only thirty four when she died in 1943, yet despite her short life she left behind an incredible body of literature. Letter to a Priest, addressed to Father Joseph-Marie Perrin, a Catholic priest who Weil met in Marsei…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780415267670 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0415267676 |
| Author: | Simone Weil |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2002 |
| Weight: | 102g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 228mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Routledge Classics |
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Critics Review
‘The best spiritual writer of this century.’- André Gide
‘Here was a woman who tried to piece together a personal moral code from all the best bits of the great faiths, but who rejected any hope of knowledge of God.’- Independent
About The Author
Simone Weil
Simone Weil (1909-1943). One of the most original philosophical, religious and political thinkers of the twentieth century.
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