Simone Weil: The Mystical Philosopher and Her Profound Reflections on Suffering, Attention, and the Need for Roots in an Age of Uprootedness

by Alex Omberg

116 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 30, 2026

About the author

I write introductions to Western philosophy for curious readers, from the ancient Greeks to the present. The books cover individual thinkers, movements, branches of the subject and the questions that keep philosophers arguing, and I try to explain each idea in plain words without making it say less than it does.

The aim is to explain a hard idea in plain words without making it say less than it does, and to show how an old argument bears on the way people live now. The flagship is the Western Philosophy Series.

I also edit The Philosophy School, a Substack publication of essays on Western philosophy. More at alexomberg.com.