The Notebooks of Simone Weil
These newly reissued notebooks, among the very few personal writings of Weil's that still survive today, contain her thoughts on art, love, science and the meaning of life.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0415327717
ISBN13:9780415327718
Release Date:December 2003
Publisher:Routledge
Length:656 Pages
Weight:2.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.6" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
don't judge a book by its cover
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Yes, the binding is cheap, and the price is exorbitant. Yes, the publisher ought to be ashamed. But the content of Simone Weil's notebooks far outweigh the slipshod production. Weil remains one of the greatest interwar thinkers, with a brilliant mind, and a saint-like intensity for the pursuit of truth, beauty and kenotic love. The works of Levinas, Agamben, Canada's George Parkin Grant and a host of other postwar thinkers, French or otherwise, would be unthinkable without Weil. As such, this book deserves more than the one star given by an earlier reviewer. I give it five stars just to even out the overall average.
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