Correspondence
Letter to a Priest
Lettre à un religieux
Thirty-five numbered propositions on the points that kept her apart from the Church: the condemnation of heretics and non-Christian peoples, the legacy of the Old Testament and of Rome, anathema as an instrument of power. She asks the recipient whether they are compatible with baptism. It is an uncomfortable text and decisive for understanding why she stayed on the threshold.
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Authorship note
Letter written in New York in autumn 1942 to the Dominican Marie-Alain Couturier; published by Gallimard in 1951.
Editions and translations
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English
Letter to a Priest
Routledge (Routledge Classics), 2002
Translation: Arthur Wills
ISBN 9780415267663
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Simone Weil
Carta a un religioso
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
- 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. Lettre à un religieux. Paris: Gallimard (col. «Espoir»), 1951. Texto en Wikisource.
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