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Gravity and grace [electronic resource] / Simone Weil ; with an introduction and postscript by Gustave Thibon ; translated by Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: French Series: Routledge classicsPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.Edition: 1st complete English language edDescription: xl, 183 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780203168455
Uniform titles:
  • Pesanteur et la grãace. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
Gravity and grace -- Void and compensation -- To accept the void -- Detachment -- Imagination which fills the void -- Renunciation of time -- To desire without an object -- The self -- Decreation -- Self-effacement -- Necessity and obedience -- Illusions -- Idolatry -- Love -- Evil -- Affliction -- Violence -- The cross -- Balance and lever -- The impossible -- Contradiction -- The distance between the necessary and the good -- Chance -- He whom we must love is absent -- Atheism as a purification -- Attention and will -- Training -- Intelligence and grace -- Readings -- The ring of Gyges -- Meaning of the universe -- Metaxu -- Beauty -- Algebra -- The social imprint -- Israel -- The great beast -- Social harmony -- The mysticism of work.
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Gravity and grace -- Void and compensation -- To accept the void -- Detachment -- Imagination which fills the void -- Renunciation of time -- To desire without an object -- The self -- Decreation -- Self-effacement -- Necessity and obedience -- Illusions -- Idolatry -- Love -- Evil -- Affliction -- Violence -- The cross -- Balance and lever -- The impossible -- Contradiction -- The distance between the necessary and the good -- Chance -- He whom we must love is absent -- Atheism as a purification -- Attention and will -- Training -- Intelligence and grace -- Readings -- The ring of Gyges -- Meaning of the universe -- Metaxu -- Beauty -- Algebra -- The social imprint -- Israel -- The great beast -- Social harmony -- The mysticism of work.

Also available in print edition.

Electronic reproduction. [London, Eng. : Taylor and Francis, 2012]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book.

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