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Waiting for God / Simone Weil ; translated by Emma Craufurd ; with an introduction by Leslie A. Fiedler.

by Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.

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HarperPerennial Modern Classics, 2009, c1951.

Weil, Simone, 1909-1943 -- Correspondence.

Perrin, Joseph Marie, 1905-2002 -- Correspondence.

God -- Worship and love.

Philosophers -- France -- Correspondence.

Harper Perennial modern classics.

9780061718960 (pbk.)

0061718963 (pbk.)

Attente de Dieu. English English

1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.

xxxiv, 151, 22 p. ; 21 cm.

Correspondence, chiefly to J.M. Perrin, and essays.

Originally published: New York : Putnam, c1951.

"Includes insights, interviews & more..."--Cover.

Letters. 1. Hesitations concerning baptism -- 2. Same subject -- 3. About her departure -- 4. Spiritual autobiography -- 5. Her intellectual vocation -- 6. Last thoughts -- Essays. Reflections on the right use of school studies with a view to the love of God -- The love of God and affliction -- Forms of the implicit love of God -- The love of our neighbor -- Love of the order of the world -- The love of religious practices -- Friendship -- Implicit and explicit love -- Concerning the Our Father

"Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An enduring masterwork and "one of the most neglected resources of our century" (Adrienne Rich), Waiting for God will continue to influence spiritual and political thought for centuries to come. Simone Weil is an outsider's saint. The daughter of an agnostic French family of Jewish descent, Weil was never baptized ("God does not want me in the Church," she wrote), and her conversion to Christianity at the age of 23 took her by surprise. Until then, she had been a solemn, committed leftist intellectual. Now she was moving toward a life of divine encounters whose desolate ecstasy, as described by the journals, letters, and essays excerpted in Waiting for God, bear comparison to St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila. As Leslie Fiedler writes in her introduction to Weil's book, "She speaks of the problems of belief in the vocabulary of the unbeliever, of the doctrines of the Church in the words of the unchurched." The book is most notable for Weil's lengthy letter titled "Spiritual Autobiography" and for her "Meditation on the Pater Noster," which is the discursive record of a spiritual process that led to her almost daily attainment of a mystical vision of God. This is not pretty writing; it is an agonized record of amazement. --Michael Joseph Gros. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943) was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and political activist. Taking a path that was unusual among twentieth-century left-leaning intellectuals, she became more religious and inclined towards mysticism as her life progressed. in 1943, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and instructed to rest and eat well. However, she refused special treatment because of her long-standing political idealism and her detachment from material things. After a lifetime of battling illness and frailty, Weil died in August 1943 from cardiac failure at the age of 34"--Provided by pubisher.

Perrin, Joseph Marie, 1905-2002.

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