Gravity and Grace

On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.

Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition - by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1952 - this Routledge Classics edition offers English readers the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever, by incorporating a specially commissioned translation of the controversial chapter on Israel. Also previously untranslated is Gustave Thibon's postscript of 1990, which reminds us how privileged we are to be able to read a work which offers each reader such 'light for the spirit and nourishment for the soul'. This is a book that no one with a serious interest in the spiritual life can afford to be without.

Introduction by Gustave Thilbon Gravity and Grace
Voide and Compensation To Accept the Void
Detachment
Imagination Which Fills the Void Renunciation Of Time
To Desire Without An Object
The Self
Decreation Self-Effacement Necessity And Obedience
Illusions
Idolatry
Love Evil Affliction
Violence The Cross
Balance And Lever
The Impossible Contradiction
The Distance Between The Necessary and the Good
Chance He Whom We Must Love Is Absent Atheism As A Purification
Attention And Will
Training
Intelligence and Grace
Readings The Ring Of Gyges Meaning of the Universe
Metaxu
Beauty
Algebra The Social Imprint
The Great Beast
Social Harmony
The Mysticism of Work