ROBERT COLES | SIMONE WEIL: A Modern Pilgrimage | 1st Ed Hardcover

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First Edition, First Printing in HARDCOVER of: • “SIMONE WEIL: A MODERN PILGRIMAGE” (A Merloyd Lawrence Book / Addison Wesley. 1978) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • BY ROBERT COLES • A VG+ / UNREAD copy • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “SIMONE WEIL (1906-1943) was a writer and philosopher who devoted her life to a search for GOD―while avoiding membership in organized religion. She wrote with the clarity of a brilliant mind educated in the best French schools, the social conscience of a grass-roots labor organizer, and the certainty and humility of a mystic―and she persistently carried out her search in the company of the poor and oppressed. “ROBERT COLES’s study of this strange and compelling figure includes the details of her short, eventful life: her academic career, her teaching, her political and social activism, and her mystical experiences. COLES also analyzes the major themes her life encompassed: her politics, her Jewish identity, her moral concerns, her intellect, and her experience of grace. This is the best, most accessible introduction to the woman who was a spiritual influence on the life and work of so many, among them T. S. ELIOT, FLANNERY O’CONNOR, ADRIENNE RICH, and ALBERT CAMUS.” —THE PUBLISHER• “The legendary WEIL—part saint, part literary genius, part patriot, part mystic—holds a clear fascination for many, including Pulitzer winner COLES. Indeed, the key to her psychic cache is hard to find, but COLES puts his special gifts lo work in helping readers better understand this strange and tormented woman. She died at 34 from tuberculosis. At the time, she was unknown and unpublished, except for articles in obscure journals. Her death, like her life, haunts with unanswered questions.... COLE's conversations with ANNA FREUD about this enigmatic figure are luminous points in a book already filled with passion and light. The author plucks...moments of clarity and wisdom...from tortured ambiguities."l—BOOKLIST • “A new study of this brilliant, perplexing and ‘unnerving’ French thinker and moral heroine, who died in 1943 at age 34, is certainly called for, and this perceptive one does her justice.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “He focuses on the themes of WEIL’s hunger, Jewishness, political life, moral loneliness, Christian mystical experiences, and ideas, and her views on intellectuals’ idolatries. His comparisons and commentaries will help the general reader find a way to WEIL.” —JUDITH VAN HERIK, THE JOURNAL OF RELIGION • “A clear, critical yet profoundly enlightening picture of a personage who deliberately doesn't want to be pigeonholed in readymade categories."—KENNETH MASONG, AMAZON REVIEW • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “DR. ROBERT COLES was awarded the PULITZER PRIZE for his five-volume CHILDREN OF CRISIS series. He is professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities at Harvard Medical School and James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University. Winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our highest civilian honor, he is also the author of many books.”—THE PUBLISHER • • For other details about this book, please see below. • SERIES: “RADCLIFFE BIOGRAPHY SERIES” TITLE: “SIMONE WEIL: A Modern Pilgrimage” AUTHOR: ROBERT COLES TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: A Merloyd Lawrence Book / Addison Wesley (New York), 1987 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First printing, April 1987”—with no later editions listed. PAGES: 179ISBN: 0201022052 NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price (17.95) is uncut. DJ is clean & bright though there’s faint age-toning along the edges & light scratching (from normal handling) on front & back. Corners & spine tips are merely bumped. Light edgewear. CONDITION OF BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square. Boards are clean with sharp corners & edges. Spine is tight & uncreased with slightly bumped top & fine bottom tip. There’s one age-spot on the fore text-block edge but edges are otherwise fine. Endpapers are also fine. The pages are all pointedly clean & bright—with no writing, no underlining, no highlight, no tears, no stains, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. This copy is CLEARLY UNREAD. •• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. 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