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It is organized into three major parts: the needs of the soul, a diagnosis of uprootedness in cities, countryside, and nationhood, and the growing of roots. The preface by T.S. Eliot frames Weil’s complex character, urges careful reading, and emphasizes her originality, moral seriousness, and the difficulty of quick judgment.","The Need for Roots  \n‘Its subject is politics in the widest Aristotelian understanding of the term, and the treatment is of exceptional originality and breadth of human sympathy. What is required if men and women are to feel at home in society and are to recover their full vitality? Into wrestling with that question, Simone Weil put the very substance of her mind and temperament. The apparently solid edifices of our prepossessions fall down before her onslaught like ninepins.’  \nThe Times Literary Supplement  \nSimone Weil  \nThe Need for Roots  \nPrelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind  \nTranslated by Arthur Wills With a preface by T.S.Eliot  \n London and New York  \nL’Enracinement was first published 1949  \nby Editions Gallimard, Paris  \nFirst published in English 1952  \nby Routledge & Kegan Paul  \nFirst published in Routledge Classics 2002  \nby Routledge  \n11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P4EE  \n29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to [www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk).”  \nTranslation © 1952 Editions Gallimard  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Weil, Simone, 1909–1943.  \n[Enracinement. English.]  \nThe need for roots: prelude to a declaration of duties towards mankind/Simone Weil; preface by T.S.Eliot.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Routledge classics) Includes bibliographical references.  \n1. Social ethics. 2. Social psychology. I.Title. II. Series.  \nHM 665.W4513 2001  \n3O3–3′72-dc21 2001041850 ISBN 0-203-19351-2 Master e-book ISBN  \nISBN 0-203-37420-7 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-27101-0 (Print Edition) (hbk)  \nISBN 0-415-27102-9 (Print Edition) (pbk)  \nCONTENTS  \nPREFACE BY T.S. ELIOT vii  \nTRANSLATOR’S FOREWORD xv  \nPART I The Needs of the Soul 1  \nOrder 9  \nLiberty 11  \nObedience 12  \nResponsibility 14  \nEquality 15  \nHierarchism 17  \nHonour 18  \nPunishment 19  \nFreedom of Opinion 21  \nSecurity 31  \nRisk 32  \nPrivate Property 33  \nCollective Property 34  \nTruth 35  \nPART II Uprootedness 39  \nv  \nUprootedness in the Towns 41  \nUprootedness in the Countryside 75  \nUprootedness and Nationhood 95  \nPART III The Growing of Roots 181  \nPREFACE  \nThe only kind of introduction which could merit permanent association with a book by Simone Weil would be—like that provided by M.Gustave Thibon to Gravity and Grace1—an introduction by someone who knew her. The reader of her work finds himself confronted by a difficult, violent and complex personality; and the assistance of those who had the advantage of long discussions or correspondence with her, especially those who knew her under the peculiar conditions of the last five years of her life, will be of permanent value in the future. I lack these qualifications. My aims in writing this preface are, first, to affirm my belief in the importance of the author and of this particular book; second, to warn the reader against premature judgment and summary classification—to persuade him to hold in check his own prejudices and at the same time to be patient with those of Simone Weil. Once her work is known and accepted, such a preface as this should become superfluous.  \nAll of Simone Weil’s work is posthumous. Gravity and Grace—the selection from her voluminous notebooks made by M. 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