The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind by Simone Weil

The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

Simone Weil

320 pages • first pub 2001 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir philosophy sociology
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Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France with her family, first going to America. She then moved back to London to work with de Gaulle. Publishe...

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