The sound of the banalities generally uttered about Simone Weil can already be heard in these few words by Simone de Beauvoir: “A great famine had just struck China, and they told me that Simone Weil ...
Reading the writings of Simone Weil (1909-1943) takes my breath away. Her thoughts are always fresh and have the dew upon them. An intellectual is a person for whom the life of the mind is extremely ...
The French philosopher Simone Weil was a soul at odds with herself and with a world of affliction. The causes she espoused as a social activist and the faith she professed as a mystic were urgent to ...