Mirror of Obedience

Name: Mirror of Obedience
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SKU: 9781350250680
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The Poems and Selected Prose of Simone Weil

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Mirror of Obedience presents a unique collection of Simone Weil's poetry and autobiographical writings, translated into English for the first time. This volume reveals a personal and introspective side of Weil, showcasing her continuous efforts to perfect her verses until her final days. Celebrated as a mystical philosopher and activist, Weil employs poetic form to distil profound meaning, offering insight into her enduring quest for beauty and truth.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in 20th-century philosophy, poetry, and mysticism, as well as those drawn to introspective and reflective literary works.

"The first English translation of the poetry and literary works of Simone Weil, one of the most important female thinkers of the 20th century"--

The first English translation of the poetry and literary works of Simone Weil, one of the most important female thinkers of the 20th century.

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Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today.

Mirror of Obedience collects together Weil's poetry and autobiographical writings translated into English for the first time. It offers a rare glimpse into a more personal and introspective Weil than we usually encounter. She was writing and re-working her poems until the end of her life, and in a letter from London to her parents, dated 22 January 1943, she expressed the wish for her verses to appear together in print in chronological order, a wish which this volume honours.

Weil was a thinker who wrote with discipline and spareness and cherished the poetic form for its power to compress language and distil meaning. In these poems and literary writings, we see her own efforts to craft poems as essential expressions of thought, bringing into view another aspect of Weil’s quest for beauty and truth.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350250680

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 August 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Contributors:

Edited by Philip Wilson
Edited by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 200

Collections

Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Poetry Religion & Spirituality

About the Author

Simone Weil was a philosopher, a mystic, and an activist.

Silvia Caprioglio Panizza is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, and is a member of PEriTiA, Centre for Ethics in Public Life, University College Dublin, Ireland. With Philip Wilson, she translated and edited Simone Weil’s verse tragedy Venice Saved (Bloomsbury, 2019).

Philip Wilson teaches philosophy of religion, philosophy of literature and translation studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. With Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, he translated and edited Simone Weil’s verse tragedy Venice Saved (Bloomsbury, 2019).