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

"What is required if men and women are to feel at home in society and are to recover their vitality? Into wrestling with that question, Simone Weil put the very substance of her mind and temperament. The apparently solid edifices of our prepossessions fall down before her onslaught like ninepins, and she is as fertile and forthright in her positive suggestions . . . she can be relied upon to toss aside the superficial and to come to grips with the essential and the profound." --Time Literary Supplement

Simone Well (1909-43): One of the most original philosophical, religious and political thinkers of the twentieth century