Escritos sobre el colonialismo

by Simone Weil, Elena M. Cano (Translator), Íñigo Sánchez-Paños (Translator)

136 pages, Hardcover

Published September 4, 2025

About the author

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".

Reviews

[Guiye · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maravilloso, crudo, irónico, obligatorio!!

“Los problemas de la colonización se plantean sobre todo en términos de fuerza. La colonización comienza casi siempre con el ejercicio de la fuerza en su forma pura, es decir, con la conquista”.

“Si la población de la colonia tiene la sensación de que el vencedor pretende prolongar indefinidamente la relación conquistador-conquistado, se establece una diferencia de la guerra por el hecho de que una de las partes está privada de armas”.