The Need for Roots by Simone Weil
The Need for Roots by Simone Weil
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The Need for Roots: Simone Weil

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Cultural studies
  • Genre / subject: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
  • Author: Simone Weil
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

The Need for Roots by Simone Weil is a history book for adult readers.

A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could be. An icon of twentieth-century French philosophy, Simone Weil was described by Andre Gide as 'the patron saint of all outsiders' and by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time'.

In this, one of her last and best-known works, she offers a vision of what human life could be - where the needs of our bodies are met and the needs of the soul, too, are better known and nurtured. Written in 1943, when France was occupied and Weil was working in the offices of the Free France in London, The Need for Roots responds to a plea both timely and timeless: what can satisfy the cry of our hearts for justice?

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