caa a22 4500 386387389 CHVBK 20180307112102.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0034412500019752 doi S0034412500019752 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0034412500019752 Springsted Eric O. Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL The Religious Basis of Culture: T. S. Eliot and Simone Weil [Elektronische Daten] [Eric O. Springsted] When T. S. Eliot wrote his preface to Simone Weil's The Need for Rootsin 1952 his own fame helped launch the book to a prominent place in the Englishspeaking world. The preface despite its warm admiration for Simone Weil, however, says little about the content of the book. What it does do is praise Weil as a balanced thinker who is ‘more truly a lover of order and hierarchy than most of those who call themselves conservative, and more truly a lover of the people than most of those who call themselves Socialist'. Since Eliot's stated intention in the preface was merely to get the reader to hold his prejudices in check and to be patient with those of Weil what he wrote was perhaps sufficient. Yet one wishes that he had said more; not to tease out further comments from one so celebrated but because Eliot himself had spent a certain amount of time thinking and writing on many of the problems which The Need for Roots addresses. His efforts are found in two monographs. The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture which have been collected and published as Christianity and Culture. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/1(1989-03), 105-116 0034-4125 25:1<105 1989 25 RES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500019752 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500019752 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Springsted Eric O. Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/1(1989-03), 105-116 0034-4125 25:1<105 1989 25 RES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge