{"product_id":"selected-essays-1934-1943-historical-political-moral-writings-works-simone-weil-9781498239219","title":"Simone Weil: Selected Works by Simone Weil","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eSelected Essays, 1934-1943\u003c\/span\u003e: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings (Simone Weil: Selected Works) \u003cbr\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimone Weil\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChosen and translated by Richard Rees \u0026amp; S\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeries forward by Eric Springsted \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eSome of the last essays \u003cb\u003eSimone Weil\u003c\/b\u003e wrote are thoughtfully presented in this collection. Historically poignant, politically biting, \u003cb\u003econtroversial\u003c\/b\u003e; Weil saved the best for last. This long unavailable work discloses her \u003cu\u003ecriticism of \u003cb\u003esocial-democrats\u003c\/b\u003e for paying too much attention to \u003cb\u003eMarx\u003c\/b\u003e and too little to \u003cb\u003eMachiavelli\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e‘It is inevitable, anyway, that a day will come when the tendency to centralization which humanity has followed for several centuries will change into the opposite tendency; \u003cb\u003efor everything in nature has its limits beyond which it cannot go\u003c\/b\u003e.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eShe died in August, 1943 at the age of 34. \u003cb\u003eShe resisted the rise of totalitarianism by means of her pen.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48851782304059,"sku":"1498239218","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/9781498239219.png?v=1716975784","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/selected-essays-1934-1943-historical-political-moral-writings-works-simone-weil-9781498239219","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}