1st Edition

Oppression and Liberty

By Simone Weil Copyright 2001
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

The remarkable French thinker Simone Weil is one of the leading intellectual and spiritual figures of the twentieth century. A legendary essayist, political philosopher and member of the French resistance, her literary output belied her tragically short life. Most of her work was published posthumously, to widespread acclaim. Always concerned with the nature of individual freedom, Weil explores... Read more
Prospects: Are we Headed for the Proletarian Revolution?, Reflections Concerning Technocracy, National-Socialism, the U.S.S.R. and Certain Other Matters, Reflections Concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression, Fragments, 1933–1938, Fragments, London 1943, Is There a Marxist Doctrine?

Biography

Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the most original philosophical, religious and political thinkers of the twentieth century; besides working as a teacher, a factory worker and a farmhand, she fought for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was a member of the French resistance.