Simone Weil
Waiting for God
Paperback $120
ISBN: 9780061718960 Published April 2009

天才兒童、資優生、哲學家、工運活躍份子、女兵、教師、詩人、劇作家、神的見証人、、、西蒙・威爾在二十世紀初一戰時期短短的34年裏超額完結她的人生。這本經典收錄了她給神父Perrin的6封信及數篇關於「愛」的短文，深刻呈現威爾在動盪世界對人類生命的種種反思。

為紀念西蒙・威爾誕生100週年，此最新版《等待上帝》加載威爾詳盡生平介紹、給此書的評論及讚語（重量級書評人包括：T.S. Eliot, Albert Camus, 威爾的同窗Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Gide, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Sontag 等等），還有威爾的金句擇錄。

Simone Weil has become a legend, and her writings are regarded as a classic document of our period.
— The New Yorker

Her example, her achievements, her frustrations, her intellectual or moral or religious impasses, and her failures, self-described or apparent to us from hindsight, all can serve to focus the mind, enlarge the heart, and stir the soul.
— Robert Coles

Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist’s most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An enduring masterwork and “one of the most neglected resources of our century” (Adrienne Rich), Waiting for God will continue to influence spiritual and political thought for centuries to come.

Philosopher, theologian, social critic, and political activist, Simone Weil (1909–1943) has become a legend of modern spiritual and political thought. Waiting for God contains Weil’s most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent.

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Aldous Huxley
The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
Paperback $130
ISBN: 9780061724947 Published July 2009