L'expérience De La Vie Et Le Travail De La Pensée

by Simone Weil

Text: French

298 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

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

[Elodia Cheutou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simone Weil affirme que la vie authentique repose sur l’effort, la responsabilité et l’acceptation de la souffrance comme voie vers la vérité.
Elle considère le travail comme un acte créateur et une discipline morale qui rapproche l’individu de la réalité et développe l’humilité.
Enfin, elle relie vie et travail à une dimension spirituelle où l’attention et le renoncement permettent d’unir pensée et action pour le bien commun.