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The anthology outlines her life as a sustained search for justice and balance across academic and practical worlds, including work as a factory labourer, involvement in the Spanish Civil War, participation in the Resistance, and later flight from Nazi persecution. Editor Siân Miles’ introduction frames the book’s posthumous, wide-ranging writings and their enduring impact.","PENGUIN 􀀌 CLASSICS  \nS IM ONE W ElL : AN ANTHO LOGY  \nSIMONE WElL (1 909-1 943) is one of the most important thinkers of the modern period. The distinctive feature of her work is the indissoluble link she makes between the theory and practice of both politics and religion and her translation of thought into action. A brilliant philosopher and mathematician, her life represents a quest for justice and balance in both the academic and the practical spheres. A scholar of deep and wide erudition, she became during the thirties an inspired teacher and activist. So as to experience physical labour at first hand, she spent almost two years as a car factory worker soon after the Front Populaire and later became a fighter in the Spanish Civil War. When her home city of Paris was occupied, she joined the Resistance in the South of France and became for a time an agricultural labourer before acceding to her parents' wish to escape Nazi persecution of the Jews by fleeing to New York. Leaving America, she joined the Free French in London where, frustrated by the exclusively intellectual nature of the work delegated to her, and weakened by a number of physical and emotional factors, she contracted tuberculosis and died in a Kentish sanatorium at the age of thirty-four. The bulk of her voluminous oeuvre was published posthumously.  \nSIAN MILES was born and brought up in the bi-cultural atmosphere of Wales and educated there and in France where she has lived for many years. She has taught at a number of universities worldwide, including Tufts University, Massachusetts, Dakar University, Senegal and York University, Toronto. She now teaches at \\Varwick University in England. Her other publications include: George Sand: JV/arianne; a translation of Violet Trefusis' Echo; in collaboration, Paul Valery's CalziersfNotebooks; and Guy de Maupassant: A Parisian A fair and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) .  \nSIMONE WElL An Anthology  \nEdited and Introduced by SIAN MILES  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nPublished by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc. , 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suire 700, Toronto, Ontario. Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland  \n(a division of Penguin Books Ltd)  \nPenguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Cambcrwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Dooks India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre,  \nPanchsheel Park, New Delhi-110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196, South Africa  \nPenguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England [www.penguin.com](www.penguin.com)  \nFirst published by Virago Press 1986  \nPublished in Penguin Classics 2005  \n1  \nCopyright©Introductions and arrangements Sian Miles, 1986, 2005  \nAll rights reserved  \nThe moral right of the author has been asserted  \nSimone Wcil's writings are copyrighted as follows: Atte11te de Die11 0 La Colombe Edition du Vieux Colombier 1950; Waiting ou God© G. P. Putnam's Sons and Routledge & Kegan Paul 1951. renewed 1979. Cahiers de Simone Wei/ Vol I. () Librairie Pion 1951, Vol. II() Pion 1953,\\\"ol Ill ©Pion 1956; The Noteboohs of Simo11e Wei/ 0 G. P. Putnam's Sons 1956. La Pesa1tte11r et Ia Grtice\"' Librairie Pion 1947; Grat1ily aud Grace Q G. P. Putnam's Sons and Routledge & Kegan Paul 1952, renewed 1980. L'E11ra\u003Ci11eme11t 0 Editions Gallimard 1949; The Need for Roots ©Simone Wei) 1952, preface by T. S. Eliot 0 G. P. Putnam's Sons and Routledge & Kegan Paul 1952, renewed 1980. Oppressioll et Liberte C Gallimard 1955; Oppressio11 a11d Liberty© Routledge and Kegan Paul 1958. 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