Editor's Preface
Part One
Social Philosophy
Chapter One
Method and Liberty
Chapter Two
"The Organization of Society"
Chapter Three
Liberty and Understanding
Chapter Four
The Need for Roots
Part Two
Science and Necessity
Chapter Five
The World and Necessity
Chapter Six
Thought, Necessity, and Contemplation
Chapter Seven
Science and Obedience
Chapter Eight
Science or Religious Meditation?
Part Three
Reflections on Ethics and Religion
Chapter Nine
Love
Chapter Ten
Friendship and Purity of Soul
Chapter Eleven
The Temporal and the Eternal
Chapter Twelve
Grace and the Beauty of the World
Chapter Thirteen
Evil, Death, and Suffering
Chapter Fourteen
Notes on the Old and New Testaments
Simone Weil
Biographical and Bibliographical Sketch
Simone Weil
Publications
Index