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Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry, Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century's most original philosopher-critics, and as a result her legacy has been claimed by many. This memoir by Weil's niece is strong-willed and incisive and as close as we are likely to get to the real Simone Weil. Born into a freethinking Jewish family, Weil contributed many articles to Socialist and Communist journals and was active in the Spanish Civil War until her health failed.
In 1940 she became strongly attracted to Roman Catholicism and the Passion of Christ. Most of her works, published posthumously, continue to inform debates in ethics, philosophy, and spirituality surrounding questions of sacrifice, asceticism, and the virtues of manual labor. Massively influential, Weil's writings were widely praised by such readers as Albert Camus, T. S. Eliot, Simone de Beauvoir, Pope John XXIII, Czeslaw Milosz, and Susan Sontag. Sylvie Weil recovers the deeply Jewish nature of Simone's thinking and details how her preoccupations with charity and justice were fully in the tradition of tzedakah, the Jewish religious obligation toward these actions.Using previously unpublished family correspondence and conversations, Sylvie Weil offers a more authentically personal portrait of her aunt than previous biographers have provided. At Home with AndrÉ and Simone Weil illuminates Simone's relationship to her family, especially to her brother, the great Princeton mathematician AndrÉ Weil. A clear-eyed and uncompromising memoir of her family, At Home with AndrÉ and Simone Weil is a fresh look at the noted French philosopher,mystic, and social activist.
Contents
Prologue
Plato or Diophantus
Phone Call
The Tunnel
A Normal Little Girl
The Saint's Tibia
Living with Her
Where to Find the Sugar Bowl
Who Are We Congratulating Here?
To Baptize Me or Not to Baptize Me?
The Nuns
Gelfilte Fish
A Beauty of Euclid
A Genuine Relic?
Choo-Choo
Do You Want to Come with Me?
A Two-Headed Genius
Family Portrait
Sterling Ancestors: From the Galician Side
Sterling Ancestors: From the Alsatian Side
The Wages of Sin
A Family Unglued
The Metamorphoses of a Kuckucksei
These Ruined Faces
The Garde-Meuble
Jerusalem
A Navy Blue Beret
Indestructible?
Japonaiserie
Pulling the Wool over Her Eyes
Tzedakah
The Old Horse
Visitation Rights
Revelation
Roots The Mirror's Eyes
Pale Petals
Epilogue
