Later compilation
On Science
Sur la science
It brings together the Descartes thesis, essays on classical science and quantum physics, and the letters exchanged with André Weil in 1940. It expresses her criticism of modern science for having lost its reference to the good.
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Authorship note
Posthumous volume (Gallimard, 'Espoir', 1966) with writings of 1929–1942 on science and mathematics, including correspondence with her brother André.
Editions and translations
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English
On Science, Necessity and the Love of God
Oxford University Press, 1968
Translation: Richard Rees
ISBN 9780192139412
Antología inglesa.
Français
Simone Weil
Sur la science
The Conscious Library
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
- Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks · 1951
- 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
- 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
- Wikisource en francés, «Auteur:Simone Weil» (relación de obras con fechas de redacción y publicación).
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