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Gravity and Grace
La Pesanteur et la Grâce
Short fragments grouped into chapters —gravity and grace, the void, detachment, decreation, the self, affliction, violence, attention and will, love, chance, the sacred— which set out her metaphysics: every natural movement of the soul obeys a law analogous to gravity, and only grace, which needs a void in order to enter, is the exception. This was the book that revealed Weil to the public and it remains the most widespread entry point to her thought, although Thibon's edition emphasises her spiritual side.
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Authorship note
Posthumous anthology prepared by Gustave Thibon from the notebooks Weil entrusted to him in Marseille in 1942; the selection, order and chapter titles are Thibon's. The full text of those notebooks can now be read in the Cahiers.
Editions and translations
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English
Gravity and Grace
Routledge (Routledge Classics), 2002
Translation: Emma Crawford y Mario von der Ruhr
ISBN 9780415290012
Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
The Conscious LibraryGravity and Grace
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952
Translation: Emma Craufurd
Primera traducción inglesa.
Français
La Pesanteur et la Grâce
Pocket (Agora), 1993
ISBN 2266045962
Español
Simone Weil
La gravedad y la gracia
The Conscious LibraryLa gravedad y la gracia
Trotta, 1996
Translation: Carlos Ortega
ISBN 8481640271
Simone Weil
La gravedad y la gracia
The Conscious LibraryLa gravedad y la gracia
Trotta, 1998
Translation: Carlos Ortega
ISBN 9788481642230
Other works by Simone Weil
- 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
- 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. La Pesanteur et la Grâce. Ed. Gustave Thibon. Paris: Plon, 1947. Texto en Wikisource.
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