by Simone Weil · Hermida Editores S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788412672978
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Continuing the work begun with the books 'La amistad' (Friendship) and 'El amor' (Love), this volume is composed of fragments on desire extracted from the 'Notebooks' that Simone Weil wrote from 1934 until months before her death. For Simone Weil, desire holds an inherent contradiction: on one hand, it is the impetus that drives us to undertake any action, but on the other, it is the end of all inclination. It is thus because desire itself, as the thinker emphasizes, is both key and bolt, an open door to the incessant search for living and, at the same time, the certainty that what is lived never fully satisfies us. In these fragments, desire is also linked to other key words for Simone Weil, such as love, freedom, thought, slavery, or misfortune, drawing, as always, a composition of reflections that help us understand the meaning of life and question all those distorted visions of the great human values.
Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic and political activist. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality and politics have remained widely influential in contemporary philosophy.
