pstrong'You cannot get far in these essays without sensing yourself in the presence of a writer of immense intellectual power and fierce independence of mind.'strongi - Janet Soskice, from the Introduction to the Routledge Classics editionpib ppb pSimone Weil 1909-1943 is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist who worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist in the Spanish Civil War. Hailed by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our times, ' her work spans an astonishing variety of subjects, from ancient Greek philosophy and Christianity to oppression, political freedom and French national identity. p ppi pWaiting for Godi is one of her most remarkable books, full of piercing spiritual and moral insight. The first part comprises letters she wrote in 1942 to Jean-Marie Perrin, a Dominican priest, and demonstrate the intense inner conflic