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Love in the Void
Where God Finds Us
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Love in the Void
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 institutio
Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.
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Love in the Void by Simone Weil explores the profound insights of a mystic and philosopher who continues to resonate with today's spiritual seekers. Weil's short and troubled life was characterised by her confounding insights into faith and doubt.
What sets her apart? Is it her social radicalism, which led her to renounce privilege? Her ambivalence toward institutional religion? Or perhaps her unique combination of philosophical rigour with the ardour of a mystic?
Albert Camus hailed Simone Weil as "the only great spirit of our time," while Andre Gide described her as "the most truly spiritual writer of this century." Her intense life and profound writings have left an enduring impact, influencing luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, Charles De Gaulle, Pope Paul VI, and Adrienne Rich.
The body of work she left behind, most of it published posthumously, reflects an anguished yet ultimately luminous spiritual journey. Following her untimely death at the age of thirty-four, Simone Weil rapidly achieved legendary status among thinkers of her era.
Her radical idealism serves as a corrective to consumer culture. More importantly, she offers a way forward, especially for those outside institutional religion, to encounter the love of Godβin the love for one's neighbour, the love of beauty, and even in suffering.
Series: Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics
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Love in the Void by Simone Weil has been praised for its spiritual insight and challenging philosophical depth. Critics have highlighted it as an excellent introduction to Weil's work, offering a compelling and accessible collection of her writings that invites readers to engage with life-altering ideas. Reviewers appreciate its ability to present complex thoughts in a way that is useful, profound, and inspiring, making it a valuable resource for both newcomers and seasoned readers of Weil's philosophy.
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ISBN: 9780874868302
Publisher: Plough Publishing House
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 May 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: Plough Publishing House
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 177.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 134
About the Author
Born in 1909 to a Jewish family in Paris, Simone Weil had a privileged childhood. An academic prodigy, she left a teaching career to become a factory worker in order to better feel and know the afflictions of the working class. Though drawn to pacifism, she went to Spain to fight the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. An agnostic, her hunger for beauty, virtue, and goodness was fed by her conviction that anyone can enter βthe kingdom of truthβ if only βhe longs for truth and perpetually concentrates all his attention on its attainment.β She never conceived of the possibility of a βreal contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and Godβ until one day βChrist himself came down and took possession of me.β Though she would remain religiously unaffiliated her entire life, the reality of this experience never left her. Simone Weil fled France when the Nazis invaded and joined the French resistance in London. In solidarity, she committed to eating the same rations as the men at the front. During the summer of 1943, she contracted tuberculosis and, weakened by malnourishment, she died within weeks.
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