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Simone Adolphine Weil ( / ˈveɪ / VAY, [11] French: [simɔn adɔlfin vɛj]; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. Since 1995, more than 2,500 scholarly works have been published about her, including close analyses and readings of her work. [12]
Mar 10, 2018 · Simone Weil. First published Sat Mar 10, 2018; substantive revision Wed Nov 24, 2021. Simone Weil (1909–1943) philosophized on thresholds and across borders. Her persistent desire for truth and justice led her to both elite academies and factory floors, political praxis and spiritual solitude.
The French philosopher Simone Weil is a confronting and disconcerting figure in modern philosophy.
Discover Simone Weil famous and rare quotes. Share Simone Weil quotations about soul, suffering and giving. "Attention is the rarest and purest form of..."
Simone Weil's distinctive contribution to religious, social and moral thought lies, I believe, in her sharp insights into what we take ourselves to be and the confusions and blindnesses and limitation therein.
Jun 5, 2024 · Simone Weil (born February 3, 1909, Paris, France—died August 24, 1943, Ashford, Kent, England) was a French mystic, social philosopher, and activist in the French Resistance during World War II, whose posthumously published works had particular influence on French and English social thought.
Jun 24, 2024 · Simone Adolphine Weil ( 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French social and religious philosopher, and Christian mystic. Politically active, during the Spanish Civil War she joined the Anarchist military unit known as the Durruti Column, and took part in the French Resistance during World War II.
[Simone Weil, an Anti-Semitic Jew? Extinguishing the Polemics] Paris: Gallimard, 2021. 226 pp. (e-book available.) It is well known that Simone Weil’s relation to Judaism is not an easy one. It is also highly complicated. On the one hand, there are her scathing comments on the Old Testament.
Simone Weil was one of the most remarkable thinkers of the past century: a philosopher, a mystic, and a political activist. Born in France in 1909, she grew up with a Christian outlook even though her parents were Jewish agnostics and her brother André a mathematician.
From Italy: Translation as a Metaxù and a Play as an “Evocation” of Simone’s Life — An Interview with Maura Del Serra. Michela Dianetti read. Human Needs. Metaxu. Poetry.
