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Waiting for God

Waiting for God( )
Author: Weil, Simone
Weil, Simone
Series title:Perennial Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-06-095970-8
Publication Date:Dec 2000
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $13.00
Book Description:

Emerging from thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains her most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendant. An enlightening introduction by Leslie Fiedler examines Weil's extraordinary roles as a philosophy teacher turned mystic. "One of the most neglected resources of our century ", Waiting for God will continue to influence spiritual and...
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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / Individual Philosophers
Religion / General
Literary Collections / Letters
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.3 x 7.96 x 0.5 Inches
Book Weight:0.4 Pounds
Author Biography
Weil, Simone (Author)
Born in Paris, Weil came from a highly intellectual family. After a brilliant academic career at school and university, she taught philosophy interspersed with periods of hard manual labor on farms and in factories. Throughout her life she combined sophisticated and scholarly interests with an extreme moral intensity and identification with the poor and oppressed. A twentieth-century Pascal (see Vol. 4), this ardently spiritual woman was a social thinker, sensitive to the crises of modern humanity. Jewish by birth, Christian by vocation, and Greek by aesthetic choice, Weil has influenced religious thinking profoundly in the years since her death. "Humility is the root of love," she said as she questioned traditional theologians and held that the apostles had badly interpreted Christ's teaching. Christianity was, she thought, to blame for the heresy of progress. During World War II, Weil starved herself to death, refusing to eat while victims of the war still suffered. 020



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