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Waiting for God / Simone Weil ; translated by Emma Craufurd ; with an introduction by Leslie A. Fiedler.
LIBRA Special B2430.W473 A7713 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weil, Simone, 1909-1943
- Standardized Title:
- Attente de Dieu. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Weil, Simone, 1909-1943--Correspondence.
- Weil, Simone.
- Perrin, Joseph Marie, 1905-2002--Correspondence.
- Perrin, Joseph Marie.
- Perrin, Joseph Marie, 1905-2002.
- Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.
- God--Worship and love.
- God.
- Genre:
- Records and correspondence.
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 156 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Perennial Classics edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial, 2001.
- Summary:
- 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 political thought for centuries to come.
- Contents:
- Letters. 1. Hesitations concerning baptism
- 2. Same subject
- 3. About her departure
- 4. Spiritual autobiography
- 5. Her intellectual vocation
- 6. Last thoughts
- Essays. Reflections on the right use of school studies with a view to the love of God
- The love of God and affliction
- Forms of the implicit love of God
- The love of our neighbor
- Love of the order of the world
- The love of religious practices
- Friendship
- Implicit and explicit love
- Concerning the Our Father.
- Notes:
- Correspondence, chiefly to J.M. Perrin, and essays.
- Originally published: New York : Putnam, ©1951.
- ISBN:
- 0060959703
- 9780060959708
- OCLC:
- 45052656
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