Gravity And Grace Av Simone Weil

<DIV>Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when she died young in 1943. Four years later the philosopher-farmer Gustave Thibon compiled La pesanteur et la gr¿ from the notebooks she left in his keeping. In 1952 this English translation accelerated the fame and influence of Simone Weil.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>The striking aphorisms in <I>Gravity and Grace</I> reflect the religious philosophy of Weil¿s last years. Written at the onset of World War II, when her health was deteriorating and her left-wing social activism was giving way to spiritual introspection, this masterwork makes clear why critics have called Simone Weil ¿a great soul who might have become a saint¿ and ¿the Outsider as saint, in an age of alienation.¿</DIV>