Posthumous work
Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks
Intuitions pré-chrétiennes
It seeks in Greek poetry, philosophy and science —Homer, Aeschylus, Plato, the Pythagoreans— foreshadowings of the Trinity, the Incarnation and the Passion. It includes her long study 'The Pythagorean Doctrine'. It is the centrepiece of her thesis on the continuity between ancient wisdom and Christianity.
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Authorship note
Texts written in Marseille in 1941–1942 and given to Fr. Perrin; published by La Colombe in 1951.
Editions and translations
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English
Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks
Routledge, 1998
Translation: Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler
ISBN 9780415186629
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Other works by Simone Weil
- Gravity and Grace · 1947
- The Need for Roots · 1949
- Waiting for God · 1950
- Notebooks · 1951
- First and Last Notebooks (Supernatural Knowledge) · 1950
- Reflections concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression · 1934
- Oppression and Liberty · 1955
- The Worker's Condition (La Condition ouvrière) · 1951
- Factory Journal · 1935
- The Iliad, or the Poem of Force · 1940
- The Greek Source · 1953
- Letter to a Priest · 1951
- London Writings and Last Letters · 1957
- Human Personality (The Person and the Sacred) · 1943
- On the Abolition of All Political Parties · 1943
- Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations · 1943
- Project for a Formation of Front-Line Nurses · 1940
- Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God · 1942
- The Love of God and Affliction · 1942
- Forms of the Implicit Love of God · 1942
- Spiritual Autobiography · 1942
- Unordered Thoughts on the Love of God · 1962
- Lectures on Philosophy · 1959
- Science and Perception in Descartes · 1930
- On Science · 1966
- Historical and Political Writings · 1960
- Letter to Georges Bernanos · 1938
- Let Us Not Start the Trojan War Again · 1937
- Venice Saved · 1955
- Poems · 1968
- Correspondence · 1982
- Complete Works · 1988
Sources
- Weil, Simone. Intuitions pré-chrétiennes. Paris: La Colombe, 1951. Texto en Wikisource.
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