![]() ![]() Now, wishing to cull from her work ideas most relevant to our times, intellectual historian Robert Zaretsky has written yet another: The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas. She wished to suffer alongside them, quite literally.Ī good number of biographies have been penned about Weil since her death in 1943, a few quite recently. It was a death that tragically imaged the life she had led: shorn of comfort, Weil desired not only to understand the sufferings of the dispossessed with her majestic intellect, or to fight for them through her social and political activism. But Weil refused special treatment for her malady, or even adequate food or water, because she wished to live in solidarity with the residents of German-occupied France who, she reasoned, were free to eat far less. The immediate cause of her death was cardiac failure due to tuberculous. Eliot, Albert Camus, Pope Paul VI, Flannery O’Connor, Iris Murdoch, and more, was lost to the world at the age of 34. The 20th-century French philosopher whose profound writings would influence the likes of T. Simone Weil may be best remembered for how she died. Simone Weil: A Thinker for Our Trying Times ![]()
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