The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind

Simone Weil; T. S. Eliot (Foreword by)

Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a ...