
La condition ouvrière
By Simone Weil
1951
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Fin décembre 1934, Simone Weil entrait comme manoeuvre dans une usine afin de partager la vie d'un ouvrier, ses peines, mais aussi éprouver la solidarité et l'amitié. Ce recueil comporte son journal d'usine ainsi que divers textes de correspondance, d'articles et de notes critiques, dont la réflexion porte sur la solidarité des exploités comme la dignité de l'individu bafouée.
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Simone Weil
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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".