By Simone Weil
Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this vintage number of essays includes the well known thinker and social activist's so much profound meditations at the dating of human existence to the world of the transcendent. a permanent masterwork and "one of the main overlooked assets of our century" (Adrienne Rich), Waiting for God will proceed to steer non secular and political concept for hundreds of years to come.
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