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Simone Weil

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Born: February 02 1909

Died: 2323 08 19431943

Simone Weil was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist. Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany. Her brilliance, ascetic lifestyle, introversion, and eccentricity limited her ability to mix with others, but not to teach and participate in political movements of her time. She wrote extensively with both insight and breadth about political movements of which she was a part and later about spiritual mysticism. Weil biographer Gabriella Fiori writes that Weil was "a moral genius in the orbit of ethics, a genius of immense revolutionary range".

Simone Weil

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Born: February 02 1909

Died: 2323 08 19431943

Simone Weil was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist. Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany. Her brilliance, ascetic lifestyle, introversion, and eccentricity limited her ability to mix with others, but not to teach and participate in political movements of her time. She wrote extensively with both insight and breadth about political movements of which she was a part and later about spiritual mysticism. Weil biographer Gabriella Fiori writes that Weil was "a moral genius in the orbit of ethics, a genius of immense revolutionary range".

Books from Simone Weil

Waiting for God

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War and the Iliad

On the Abolition of All Political Parties

The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind

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Simone Weil: An Anthology

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Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

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La persona e il sacro

The Power of Words

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Gravity and Grace

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La amistad

Reflexiones sobre las causas de la libertad y de la opresión social

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Simone Weil: Writings Selected with an Introduction

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Lectures on Philosophy

Il libro del potere

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La rivelazione greca

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Carta a un religioso

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Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings

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Opresión y libertad: Ensayos de crítica social y política

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Lezioni di filosofia: 1933-1934

Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other