Simone Weil’s The Need for Roots
- Written by Richard Colledge, Acting Executive Dean, Faculty of Theology & Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
Wikimedia CommonsTo be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul.
So claimed the great French philosopher, activist and spiritual writer, Simone Weil, in her classic 1943 book, The Need for Roots. It was published months before her death in England during some of the darkest days of German occupation of her...
