In this illuminating memoir, Sylvie Weil reflects on her famed philosopher aunt Simone and mathematician father Andr???, using family correspondence and conversations to paint the most intimate portrait of Simone Weil in print.
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In this illuminating memoir, Sylvie Weil reflects on her famed philosopher aunt Simone and mathematician father Andr???, using family correspondence and conversations to paint the most intimate portrait of Simone Weil in print.
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Add this copy of At Home With André and Simone Weil to cart. $20.70, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2020 by Northwestern University Press.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 5x0x8; 2010 first edition thus, Northwestern University Press (Evanston, Illinois), 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches tall red cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, black lettering to spine, 180 pp. A near fine copy-clean, bright and unmarked, seemingly unread-in a very good dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~SP37~ [1.5P] 'It is quite incorrect to believe that the dead are gone forever and never return to speak to the living. They return to speak to the living all the time; indeed, it is their main activity. ' Thus writes Sylvie Weil in this illuminating memoir, in which contemporary readers can hear the voices of her famed philosopher aunt Simone and mathematician father Andre. Born into a freethinking Jewish family in France in 1909, Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century's most original philosophers, influencing Albert Camus, T. S. Eliot, Simone de Beauvoir, Pope John XXIII, Czeslaw Milosz, and Susan Sontag. She fought for workers' rights and, later, the Spanish Republican cause. Before her death at age thirty-four, Simone Weil turned increasingly to mysticism and religion, especially Roman Catholicism, exploring themes of sacrifice, asceticism, and the virtues of manual labor. She never converted, however, and Sylvie Weil writes from a Jewish perspective, emphasizing Simone's Jewish heritage. Using previously unpublished family correspondence and conversations, Sylvie Weil paints the most vivid, private portrait of her aunt in print. The book illuminates Simone's relationship with others, especially with her brother, Andre. Loving and unsparing, affectionate and incisive, At Home with Andre and Simone Weil is an insightful memoir about a family of intellectual luminaries.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., no flaws or wear. clean. no markings. appears unused.; translated from the original french by benjamin ivry.; 180pp. the author is the daughter of andre weil and the niece of simone weil.
