First complete English language edition. With an introduction and postscript by Gustave Thibon.

Gravity and Grace was the first-ever publication by the remarkabler thinker and activist, Simone Weil. Gustave Thibon, to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death in 1943, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writtings that has become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for counteless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary this Routledge Classic edition offers English readers the complete text of this landmark work for the first time, by a controversial chapter on Israel. Also previously untranslated is Gustave Thibon's post-script of 1990, which reminds us how privileged we are to be able to read a work which offers each reader such light for the spirit 'light for the spirit and nourishment for the soul'. This is a book that no one with a serious interest in the spiritual life can afford to be without.

Simon Weil (1909-1943). One of the most original philosophical, religious and political thinkers of the twentieth century.