Simone Weil
Simone Weil (3 February 1909 in Paris, France – 24 August 1943 in Ashford, Kent, England), was a French philosopher, gnostic, Christian mystic, and activist for social justice and soteriology of Jewish descent.
Books
- Simone Weil, Œuvres complètes. (Paris: Gallimard, 1989–2006, 6 vols.) (complete works)
- 1947: La Pesanteur et la grâce (Gravity and grace)
- 1949: L'Enracinement (Rootedness)
- 1950 Attente de Dieu (Waiting for God)
- 1951: Lettre à un religieux (Letter to a monk)
- 1951: Les Intuitions pré-chrétiennes (Paris: Les Éditions de la Colombe) (Pre-Christian intuitions)
- 1952: La Source grecque (Paris: Gallimard) (The Greek source)
- 1955: Oppression et liberté (Oppression and liberty)
- 2006: Note sur la suppression générale des partis politiques (Paris: Climats) (Note on the general suppression of political parties)
Simone Weil Media
Weil at age 13. The photograph was taken during a family holiday to Belgium, where she was laughing with her brother André.
Leon Trotsky, for whom Weil arranged a period of residence at her parents' apartment in December 1933 while he was in Paris for secret meetings. She had argued against Trotsky both in print and in person, suggesting that élite communist bureaucrats could be just as oppressive as the worst capitalists. Weil was one of the rare few who appeared to hold her own with the Red Army founder in a face-to-face debate.
The Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi where Simone had one of three spiritual "encounters that really counted," leading to her conversion to Christianity
A commemorative plaque on the exterior of the apartment building on Riverside Drive in New York City where Weil lived in 1942
Simone Weil Avenue, a section of the A28 road which runs close to her grave in Ashford, was named in honour of the philosopher in 1983.
Street art image of Simone Weil in Berlin-Kreuzberg (2019)
Other websites
- Some texts from Simone Weil (translated to Catalan)