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portada Love in the Void: Where god Finds us (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2018
Language
English
Pages
134
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
17.5 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm
Weight
0.14 kg.
ISBN13
9780874868302

Love in the Void: Where god Finds us (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics)

Simone Weil (Author) · Plough Publishing House · Paperback

Love in the Void: Where god Finds us (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics) - Simone Weil

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Synopsis "Love in the Void: Where god Finds us (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics) "

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.
Simone Weil
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Simone Adolphine Weil fue una filósofa, ensayista y mística francesa, una de las pensadoras más singulares y radicales del siglo XX. Su vida estuvo marcada por una coherencia extrema entre pensamiento y acción: trabajó como obrera, participó en conflictos sociales y políticos, y llevó su reflexión ética hasta las últimas consecuencias personales. Weil abordó temas como la opresión, el trabajo, la justicia y la atención al otro desde una lucidez incómoda, ajena a dogmas y a cualquier forma de complacencia intelectual.

Es autora de Echar raíces, una de sus obras más influyentes, donde reflexiona sobre las necesidades fundamentales del ser humano y la relación entre individuo, comunidad y responsabilidad moral. El libro combina pensamiento político, filosofía y espiritualidad con una claridad implacable. Simone Weil no escribió para consolar, sino para exigir: pensar, para ella, era un acto moral. Su legado sigue interpelando por su profundidad, su rigor y su rara honestidad intelectual.
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