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portada Simone Weil: Mystic of Passion and Compassion
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780718894269

Simone Weil: Mystic of Passion and Compassion

Maria Clara Bingemer (Author) · Lutterworth · Paperback

Simone Weil: Mystic of Passion and Compassion - Maria Clara Bingemer

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Synopsis "Simone Weil: Mystic of Passion and Compassion"

The present book reflects on the life, work, and legacy of an exceptional and enigmatic woman: the philosopher and French Jewish mystic Simone Weil. It constitutes a testimony so unique that it is impossible to ignore. In a Europe where authoritarian regimes were dominant and heading, in a sinister manner, toward WWII, this woman of fragile health but indomitable spirit denounced the contradictions of the capitalist system, the brutality of Nazism, and the paradox of bourgeois thought. At the same time, her spiritual journey was one of zeal and sorrow - that of a true mystic - but her radical intransigence and passion for freedom kept her from actually approaching the institutional church. Curious and insatiable, she wanted to experience, in the flesh, the suffering of society's least fortunate and the truths of other religions. The reader will need to develop a discerning empathy for Simone Weil's sensibility, beyond her particular passion and zeal, in order to appreciate her in depth. But undeniable are this truly singular woman's authenticity, her capacity to suffer, her identification with the other, her inner passion, her almost magical perception of the depths of the human spirit. And that is why her story merits being toldas one of the great witnesses of our age.

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