The Iliad, or The Poem of Force
By Simone Weil
1940
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Simone Weil est née à Paris en 1909 et meurt à Ashford, où elle a rejoint les services de la France Libre, en 1943. Figure sans équivalent dans la pensée française, elle a laissé une œuvre où à un engagement radical du côté du monde ouvrier (elle travaillera en usine en 1934-1935, participera à différentes publications dont La Critique sociale de Souvarine) se mêle une réflexion mystique tout aussi radicale. Ses Œuvres complètes sont en cours de publication aux Éditions Gallimard.
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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".
