The Need for RootsA new translation of Simone Weil's best known worka political, philosophical, and spiritual treatise on what human life could be. An icon of twentieth century French philosophy, Simone Weil was described by Andre Gide as 'the patron saint of all outsiders' and by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time'. In this, one of her last and best known works, she offers a vision of what human life could bewhere the needs of our bodies are met and