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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Toward Mankind
The Need for Roots Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Toward Mankind Author:Simone Weil Written while Simone Weil worked at the French Headquarters in London, The Need for Roots was published in 1949 posthumously under the title L'Enracinement. She had been commissioned by General de Gaulle, head of the Free French forces, to write a report on the duties and privileges of the French after the liberation. Weil became concerned b... more »y the idea of uprootedness; she wrote this study on the need for security. Her report called for her fellow French to recover their spiritual roots. An intensely spiritual person, Weil felt it an obligation to experience life as others had to, working on factories and on farms. She was to die of tuberculosis a year after being commissioned to write this book, having refused to eat more than the rations of those suffering Nazi occupation in France.« less