Simone weil t s eliot (4 Ergebnisse)

Green Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine DJ. First English Edition. 288 Pp. First English Language Translation Of Her Book Which Was First Published In France In 1949. Gallup B66 For The Eliot Preface. Camus Reportedly Considered Her To Be The Most Important 20Th Century Writer. Book Is Clean, Unmarked, No Names, No Fraying, Light Rubbing At Corners. Dj Is Especially Clean And Bright, Unfaded, Price Clipped At Bottom Of Front Flap, With A 1/4" Deep X 1/2" Long Chip At Bottom Of Front Bottom Spine Fold, A 1/8' V-Chip At Bottom Of Rear Spine Fold, And A 1/8" Deep X 1/4" Long Chip At Top Of Rear Spine Fold.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Minor wear on all corners.

First Edition. [Philosophy] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xv [1] 288. Publisher's light blue cloth, red label with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 18s to front flap. Top edge red. Moderate spotting - mostly to endpapers, jacket flaps, and margins/textblock edges. Bookplate label adhered to front flyleaf. Toning to jacket spine. A few open and closed tears to jacket extremities, minor loss. Very good. A discussion of the certain 'roots' a society deems fundamental to its existence, and whether those roots are as permanent as the word suggests. With a preface written by T.S. Eliot.…

First American Edition. First printing. Black cloth hardcover, stamped in deep red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xv,[1]-302pp. Mild dusting to upper edge of text block, else a tight, very Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. In the original dustwrapper, all four corners clipped by publisher with printed price of $4.00 on front flap. Quite bright and clean, the spine free of fading, but rear panel scuffed (costing a few characters of text), with a bit of wear to extremities, including small chips at spine crown and lower front panel - Very Good. Preceded by the U.K. first edition the same year. Quite presentable copy of Weil's posthumously-published masterpiece, written in London the year before her death from self-inflicted starvation, published in French as L'Enracinement: prélude à une déclaration des devoirs envers l'être humain (Paris: Gallimard, 1949). Perhaps owing somewhat to Eliot's effusive preface, this rather difficult work of social theory, begun as an analysis of France's capitulation to the Nazis during the Vichy period, achieved a large English-language readership (though, as with its clear analogue, Arendt's The Human Condition, it's unclear how much the book was actually read by those who discussed it). Regardless, The Need For Roots remains one of the essential works of the post-war period. Never out of print, but quite hard to find in the first edition.…