The Self, Love & Contradiction: Three Essays
Simone Weil

“The only great spirit of our time”
— Albert Camus

In the decade and a half since the first publication of this anthology, the influence of Simone Weil's life and work has spread and deepened in many different spheres. Some of these include the familiar fields of philosophy and religion with which her name has traditionally been most closely associated. The process of decreation which she uses to describe the
kind of spiritual stripping-down which enables a person to perceive and bear an undistorted truth, is an exercise now familiar to many who decide to make a radical reassessment and re-creation of their lives.

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