Simone weil - la quete de racines celestes
Sylvie Courtine-Denamy - Collection La nuit surveillée
Résumé
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In 1943 Simone Weil, after making her way to Marseilles, then taking the route to exile in New York, finally succeeded in being repatriated to London and the 'France Libre' unit, where she wished to share the lot of her compatriots. There, she wrote her 'second great book' which her death prevented her from finishing, 'The Need for Roots'. Contemplating the reorganization of post-war France, the philosopher makes a number of political propositions to cure the sickness that afflicted her times, 'uprootedness'. In order to make her diagnostic, she who was too well-born had to free herself from her roots, share the humiliations of those that the hazard of birth had made poorer than her, rub shoulders with reality. Holder of a PhD, she endured the hard life of a labourer, then a farm worker. S. Weil declared loud and clear that she had no roots in Jewish tradition - 'you cannot inherit a religion' - even though the Vichy regime was aware of her ancestry. So why is it that she who was born and grew up in 'Christian inspiration' - the only real defence, to her mind, against the disorder of those times - could not cross the threshold of the Church, but remained 'waiting on God', incapable of taking root in this world? Perhaps because, as she wrote, 'only the light that falls continually from the sky can give a tree the energy to plunge its powerful roots into the soil. The tree is, in reality, rooted in the sky.'
L'auteur - Sylvie Courtine-Denamy
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PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Sylvie Courtine-Denamy |
Collection | La nuit surveillée |
Parution | 05/02/2009 |
Nb. de pages | 151 |
Format | 13.4 x 21.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 208g |
EAN13 | 9782204088657 |
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