Need for Roots

Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being

By (author) : Simone Weil
Translated by : Ros Schwartz
Introduction by : Kate Kirkpatrick
Publishers: Penguin Books Ltd
Print Format: Paperback

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A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could be

What do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone Weil, one of the foremost philosophers of the last century, envisaged us all as being bound by unconditional, eternal obligations towards every other human being. In The Need for Roots, her most famous work, she argued that our greatest need was to be rooted: in a community, a place, a shared past and collective future hopes. Written for the Free French movement while she was exiled in London during the Second World War, Weil's visionary combination of philosophy, politics and mysticism is her answer to the question of what life without occupation - and oppression - might be.
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Translated by Ros Schwartz, with an introduction by Kate Kirkpatrick.

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Title	Need for Roots
By (author)	Simone Weil
Translated by	Ros Schwartz
Introduction by	Kate Kirkpatrick
Publishers	Penguin Books Ltd
Language of text	English
Original language of a translated text	French
ISBN	9780241467978
Product Form	Paperback
Height	198 mm
Width	129 mm
Thickness	16 mm
Unit weight	213 gr