Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $0
The Need for Roots : Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind - Simone Weil

The Need for Roots

Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

By: Simone Weil

eText | 30 April 2020 | Edition Number 2

At a Glance

eText

$25.29

or 4 interest-free payments of $6.32 with

Instant online reading in your Booktopia eTextbook Library *

Why choose an eTextbook?

Instant Access *

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

* eTextbooks are not downloadable to your eReader or an app and can be accessed via web browsers only. You must be connected to the internet and have no technical issues with your device or browser that could prevent the eTextbook from operating.

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 direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual. She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as human beings is to not let another suffer from hunger. Equally as important, however, is our duty towards our community: we may have declared various human rights, but we have overlooked the obligations and this has left us self-righteous and rootless. She could easily have been issuing a direct warning to us today, the citizens of Century 21.

on
Desktop
Tablet
Mobile

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionPhilosophyEthics & Moral PhilosophyReligion & BeliefsReligionPhilosophy of ReligionPsychologySocial PsychologyChristianitySocial & Political Philosophy

Other Editions and Formats

Hardcover

Published: 12th October 2001

Available for Backorder. We will order this from our supplier however there isn't a current ETA.

View Product

More in Social & Political Philosophy

Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes

eBOOK

Leviathan

eBook

$25.99

Just Another Soldier : A Year on the Ground in Iraq - Jason Christopher Hartley

eBOOK

Just Another Soldier

A Year on the Ground in Iraq

eBook

RRP $12.99

$10.66

18%
OFF

This product is categorised by