Name: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge (Simone Weil: Selected Works)
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First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge (Simone Weil: Selected Works)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Simone Weil

Preface by

Eric O. Springsted

Translated by

Richard Rees

Publisher

Wipf & Stock Publishers

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

386

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 14.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9781498239196

Synopsis "First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge (Simone Weil: Selected Works) "

Introducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil Some of Simone Weil's most important thinking was done through the medium of her notebooks. She used them in several inter-related ways. First, she used them to note things she had read and was researching. Far more often, they were workbooks where she worked through her ideas. Many of the ideas in her completed essays can first be found in her notebooks, and thus the notebooks are invaluable for adding context and nuance along with a sense of development to the reading of those later essays. Finally, her notebooks simply contain Weil's aphoristic writing at its best in its most striking presentation. For that reason alone, the last two notebooks, which she wrote while in New York and London in 1942-43, published in French as La Connaissance surnaturel (Supernatural Knowledge) have been read as books of great wisdom. This volume also includes her first notebook from the year 1934, not long after her time in the factory and its subject matter reflects this period in her life. SELECTED WORKS: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge / ISBN 978-1-4982-3919-6 Seventy Letters: Personal and Intellectual Windows on a Thinker / ISBN 978-1-4982-3920-2 Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political and Moral Writings / ISBN 978-1-4982-3921-9

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Simone Adolphine Weil fue una filósofa, ensayista y mística francesa, una de las pensadoras más singulares y radicales del siglo XX. Su vida estuvo marcada por una coherencia extrema entre pensamiento y acción: trabajó como obrera, participó en conflictos sociales y políticos, y llevó su reflexión ética hasta las últimas consecuencias personales. Weil abordó temas como la opresión, el trabajo, la justicia y la atención al otro desde una lucidez incómoda, ajena a dogmas y a cualquier forma de complacencia intelectual.

Es autora de Echar raíces, una de sus obras más influyentes, donde reflexiona sobre las necesidades fundamentales del ser humano y la relación entre individuo, comunidad y responsabilidad moral. El libro combina pensamiento político, filosofía y espiritualidad con una claridad implacable. Simone Weil no escribió para consolar, sino para exigir: pensar, para ella, era un acto moral. Su legado sigue interpelando por su profundidad, su rigor y su rara honestidad intelectual.

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