Love in the Void

Where God Finds Us

Simone Weil, Laurie Brands Gagnae

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Plough Publishing House
04 May 2018

Philosophy; Philosophy of religion; Christian spirituality & religious experience; Christian mysticism; Christian life & practice; Personal Christian testimony & inspirational works; Mysticism

Series: Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics

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 institutional religion? Her combination of philosophical rigor with the ardor of a mystic?

Albert Camus called Simone Weil ""the only great spirit of our time."" Andre Gide found her ""the most truly spiritual writer of this century."" Her intense life and profound writings have influenced people as diverse as T. S. Eliot, Charles De Gaulle, Pope Paul VI, and Adrienne Rich.

The body of work she left-most of it published posthumously-is the fruit of an anguished but ultimately luminous spiritual journey.

After her untimely death at age thirty-four, Simone Weil quickly achieved legendary status among a whole generation of thinkers. Her radical idealism offered a corrective to consumer culture. But more importantly, she pointed the way, especially for those outside institutional religion, to encounter the love of God - in love to neighbor, love of beauty, and even in suffering.

By: Simone Weil
Other: Laurie Brands Gagnae
Imprint: Plough Publishing House
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 136g
ISBN: 9780874868302
ISBN 10: 0874868300
Series: Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics
Pages: 134
Publication Date: 04 May 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 “the kingdom of truth” if only “he longs for truth and perpetually concentrates all his attention on its attainment.” She never conceived of the possibility of a “real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God” until one day “Christ himself came down and took possession of me.” 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.

Reviews for Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

An excellent introduction to Weil's writings and also a valuable guide and stimulus for cultivating a life in which intellectual and spiritual honesty are inseparable, and in which the difficulty of attaining them is seriously confronted. It is ideal for classroom use, for introducing a friend to Weil, or for revisiting her long after an earlier encounter to be reminded why she is such a compelling and challenging interlocutor. --Mark Shiffman, Front Porch Republic A brilliant, paradoxical figure....In an age of `inspirational' books without inspiration, her writing is unmatched for surprising, sometimes shocking, spiritual insight. --New York Times The only great spirit of our time. --Albert Camus The most truly spiritual writer of this century. --Andre Gide Love in the Void is a reminder to neophytes and the experienced alike that Weil's writing is meant to be concrete, accessible, and useful - more than simply ideas to ponder, but an invitation to change our lives. Plough has done an admirable job in assembling a condensed version of Weil's most pertinent writing. This is Weil burned down to her essentials. --Scott Beauchamp This beguiling book is a fine introduction to Weil's work. --Publisher's Weekly