Love in the Void (eBook)

Where God Finds Us

Simone Weil (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
134 Seiten
Plough Publishing House (Verlag)
978-0-87486-831-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.

Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and confounding insights into faith and doubt, continues to speak to today’s spiritual seekers? Was it her social radicalism, which led her to renounce privilege? Her ambivalence toward institutional religion? Her combination of philosophical rigor with the ardor of a mystic?

Albert Camus called Simone Weil “the only great spirit of our time.” André Gide found her “the most truly spiritual writer of this century.” Her intense life and profound writings have influenced people as diverse as T. S. Eliot, Charles De Gaulle, Pope Paul VI, and Adrienne Rich.

The body of work she left—most of it published posthumously—is the fruit of an anguished but ultimately luminous spiritual journey.

After her untimely death at age thirty-four, Simone Weil quickly achieved legendary status among a whole generation of thinkers. Her radical idealism offered a corrective to consumer culture. But more importantly, she pointed the way, especially for those outside institutional religion, to encounter the love of God – in love to neighbor, love of beauty, and even in suffering.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: 20th-Century women philosophers • Affliction • attention as prayer • Beauty • Biography • christian mysticism • Divine Love • Doubt • Essays • Faith • Faith and suffering • French Resistance • God's absence • Gravity and Grace • Idolatry • Jewish philosopher • lewish philosophers • love of beauty • love of God • love of nature • love of neighbor • Nature • Nazi Invasion • Neighbor • Philosophical theology • radical idealism • Simone Weil • Simone Weil biography • Simone Weil essays • Spanish Civil War • Spiritual anthologies • spiritual longing • Suffering • The right use of school studies • Twentieth century • twentieth century philosophers • Waiting for God • Women • Women philosophers
• ISBN-10: 0-87486-831-9 / 0874868319
• ISBN-13: 978-0-87486-831-9 / 9780874868319