Gravity & Grace
The Radical Weil and the Rightist Thibon: A First Set of Thoughts on “Gravity and Grace”
Resources: Simone Weil on Plant Life, Chlorophyll & Related Topics
Inside Issue 3: New and Forthcoming
The Pandemic of Force: A Weilian Review of Apollo’s Arrow
Weil’s Single-Minded Commitment to Truth: A Q & A Interview with J. P. Little
The Famous Book She Never Wrote: The story of Simone Weil’s “Gravity and Grace”
Gravity and Grace is one of her most-read works. First published in France in 1947, La Pésanteur et la grâce was received as a manifesto of faith for those searching for God’s presence in the black holes of an indifferent universe. Despite the claim on the book’s cover and title page, it is not a book that Weil wrote. True, its words were hers. But the conception, selection, organization, and rearrangement of those words into 39 compressed chapters with aphorism-like appeal were not her work product.
Washington Independent Review of Books, April 16, 2020
The Famous Book She Never Wrote
Washington Independent Review of Books
Selections from Gravity & Grace
The Self, The Great Beast, The Mysticism of Work, Void and Compensation, Attention and Will, Contradiction, Detachment, Friendship, Love, Chance; reproduced in free, online version of Siân Miles, ed., Simone Weil: An Anthology (Penguin, 2005).
Gravity and Grace
Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr, trans., Gustav Thibon, intro. and postscript, New York: Routledge, (2003).
