Editing Simone Weil (section)

===''Gravity and Grace''===
While ''[[Gravity and Grace]]'' ({{langx|fr|La Pesanteur et la Grâce}}) is one of the books most associated with Simone Weil, the work was not intended to be a book at all. Rather, the work consists of various passages selected from Weil's notebooks and arranged topically by her friend [[Gustave Thibon]]. Weil had given Thibon some of her notebooks written before May 1942, but not with any intent to publish them. Hence, the resulting selections, organization and editing of ''Gravity and Grace'' were much influenced by Thibon, a devout Catholic (see Thibon's introduction to ''Gravity and Grace'' ([[Routledge]] & Kegan Paul, 1952) for more details).

Weil felt gravity and grace were opposites believing that gravity signifies the ''force'' of the natural world of which all beings are physically, materially, and socially affected and that this "pulls" attention away from God and the afflicted whereas grace is a form of justice and a counter-balance, motivated by the goodness of God. Weil felt that this gravity (force) and grace (justice) are the two most fundamental aspects of the world and came together at the [[Crucifixion of Jesus|crucifixion]].<ref name=":12" />