The need for roots : prelude to a declaration of duties toward mankind
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TextSeries: [Beacon Contemporary Affairs]Boston Beacon Press c1952Description: xv, 302p.; bibliog. notesContent type: - text
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'Translated by Arthur Wills.'. 'With a preface by T. S. Eliot.'
Preface by T. S. Eliot. Part 1 -- the needs of the soul. Order. Liberty. Obedience. Responsibility. Equality. Hierarchism. Honor. Punishment. Freedom of opinion. Security. Risk. Private property. Collective property. Truth. Part 2 -- uprootedness. Uprootedness in the towns. Uprootedness in the countryside. Uprootedness and nationhood. Part 3 -- the growing of roots
'This book is Simone Weil's passionate answer to the problem of how to reconstruct humanity in a time of violence and uncertainty; but it is more than that -- it is a searching analysis of the uprooted everywhere.'
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