About this title: "Gravity and Grace" shows Weil's religious thoughts and ideas, drawn from many sources - Christian, Jewish, Indian, Greek and Hindu - and focusing on suffering and redemption. It brings the reader face to face with the profoundest levels of existence as Weil explores the relationship of the human condition to the realm of the transcendent.
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Edition: Text is Free of Markings
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Neb, Lincoln, NE
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780803298002ISBN:0803298005
Description: Near Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 236 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. read more
Edition: Reprint, 1st Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln NE
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780803298002ISBN:0803298005
Description: As New. No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Crisp new copy. Weil's "pensees", her spiritual introspection, written toward the end of her life, with introductions by Gustave Thibon (original publication) and Thomas R. Nevin (this edition. ) read more
Binding: Very Good
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, NY
Date Published: 1952
Description: Very Good in Poor jacket. Hardcopy DJ is torn, missing several small pieces, creases, tears to edges, first blank page is missing upper right-hand corner, book pages are in very good condition with no markings, creases, rips, tears or writing to them. Pages of book are very clean. Introduction by Gustave Thibon. The author's unique approach to the problems of religion in the world today should apeal to many persons who are seeking a reasoned, and not a blind, faith on which to build for the ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780803298002ISBN:0803298005
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 236pp. Paperback in very good condition, lightly smudged front cover. '......bears clear personal traces of the young genius who was half icy intellectual, half mystic' read more
Description: Reader copy. Routledge. 1952. RED library style binding (hardcover, no dustjacket). Underlining and notes in pen appears on about 25 pages. Usual library stamps and stickers. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780415084796ISBN:0415084792
Description: Near fine in n/a jacket. Slight creasing to corners of publisher's decorated wrappers else near fine. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. read more
Description: Very Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Size: Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Philosophy ISBN: 0710022638 Inventory No: 15609. read more
Binding: Hard Copy
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul LTD., London
Date Published: 1952
Description: Very Good in Fair jacket. 1952 Hard Cover. Routledge and Kegan Paul LTD.160 pgs. Previous owner name ffep. No other marks found. clean pgs, binding tight. DJ with edge wear and few edge tears. Sunning on spine. Pages tanning. Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, whom she had entrusted her notebooks before leaving the country to join the Free French, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 1987-10-08
ISBN-13:9780744800753ISBN:0744800757
Description: New. New and in great condition (yellowing page edges, light wear on cover, otherwise in mint/pristine condition). Pages are crisp and clean with a tight spine. read more
Edition: FIRST EDITION
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: PUTNAM'S SONS (G.P. ), NEW YORK NY
Date Published: PUB 1952
Description: NF/G+ INTRODUCTION BY GUSTAVE THIBON/TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR WILLS. BOOK IS FINE BUT FOR A LIGHT BUMP TO THE FRONT BOTTOM FORE-EDGE CORNER. D.J. IS CHIP-WORN AT THE CORNERS WITH QUITE A BIT OF SHALLOW CHIPPING WITH ASSOCIATED CREASES ALONG THE TOP AND BOTTOM EDGES (MOST CHIPS 1/8" DEEP), AND SOME LIGHT RUBBING OF THE VERTICAL FOLDS. DESPITE FLAWS A NICE PRESENTABLE COPY OF A SCARCE BOOK. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1952 Putnam hard cover-no dust jacket-minor wear to cover-minor staining and tanning to page edge-otherwise binding strong contents clean-a fine collectible. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780415290005ISBN:0415290007
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 7.795 by 5.079 inches. Introduction by gustave thibon gravity and grace void and compensation to accept the void detachment imagination which fills the void renunciation of time to desire without an object the self decreation self-effacement necessity and obedience illusions idolatry love evil affliction violence the cross balance and lever the impossible contradiction the distance between the necessary and the good chance he whom we must love is absent atheism as a ... read more
"Not much can be said as a review of a book like this one. It is itself the sum total of what is possible to say at all. Though it's funny that in some of her opinions she is dead-wrong, and still it doesn't get in the way."
"Sometimes Weil seems awfully austere. However, her work is full of soul-rearranging gems like this: "Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.""
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