It was here she found Karl Marx essential. Trouvé à l'intérieur – Page 298Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture: Readings toward a Divine Humanity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 260–76. Silverman, Debora, 'Weaving Paintings: Religious and Social Origins of Vincent Van Gogh's Pictorial Labor' ... Simone Weil: An Anthology, edited and introduced by Sian Miles (Penguin Modern Classics, £9.99) Simone Weil can be neglected in the more modish surveys of . Lui seul peut entrer en nous. Toutes les autres choses restent en dehors, et nous ne connaissons d'elles que les tensions de degré et de direction variables imprimées à la corde quand il y a déplacement d'elles ou de nous.Simone Weil She studied philosophy there, graduating in 1931 with a diplome d’etudes superieures on the basis of her thesis “Science et perfection dans Descartes.” The same year, she passed the French Civil Service Examination (the agregation) and was appointed to a girls’ secondary school in the regional centre Le Puy, where she taught until 1936, with many breaks to pursue union activities, investigate Communist labour organizations in Germany, and fight on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. First published Sat Mar 10, 2018. "Seul grand esprit de notre temps" selon Albert Camus, l'œuvre considérable de Simone Weil s'impose comme une critique implacable du monde actuel. ), Winch, Peter, Simone Weil: “The Just Balance,” (Cambridge University Press, 1989. ), Simone Weil: Seventy Letters. tr. The Unexemplary Simone Weil. Ruth Hein, (University of Missouri Press, 1998.). Along with some twenty volumes of her works, publishers have issued more than thirty biographies, including Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage by Robert Coles, Harvard's Pulitzer-winning professor, who calls Weil 'a giant of reflection.'[85]. ), Bell, Richard H., Simone Weil, (Rowman & Littlefield,1998. Répertoire 1809-1950", "Simone Weil's Rediscovered Jewish Inspiration", "Film Review: An Encounter with Simone Weil", "Deep Listen: Kaija Saariaho • VAN Magazine", Faceted Application of Subject Terminology, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simone_Weil&oldid=1049648514, Converts to Christianity from atheism or agnosticism, Members of the General Confederation of Labour (France), Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Intellectually precocious, Weil also expressed social awareness at an early age. Her life and her work alike were rent by sharp contradictions. It demanded an attentive compassion, understood as “the rarest and purest form of generosity.”, As an intellectual or theoretical stance, all this was unobjectionable, even admirable. Culture. At this time, she was a Marxist, pacifist, and trade unionist. This division was, at the same time, a division between people, dividing the human world into “two categories of men: those who command and those who obey.” This division undermined the foundations of ethical life because those who commanded could not avoid “reading” those they ordered about as—in the light of their being ordered about—means (or obstacles) to the desired ends. The most compelling thing she sees in Homer's poem of war is the idea of force. Equality, she wrote, “consists in a recognition, at once public, general, effective and genuinely expressed in institutions and customs, that the same amount of respect and consideration is due to every human being because this respect is due to the human being as such and is not a matter of degree.”. It involved the twinned and catastrophic impact of physical pain (which might be simply the fear of such pain), and social humiliation, social degradation. For the early Weil, this eternal ethical obligation seemed, as it did at the time to many others, to be clearly and equally a political obligation (“revolution”). Trouvé à l'intérieur – Page 175Simone Weil, Charles Jacquier. SIMONE WEIL ET L'ANTHROPOLOGIE DES ANNÉES TRENTE : UNE « RENCONTRE MANQUÉE » ? ... de la culture weimarienne , et qui a ses équivalents en France ; mais pour autant , il s'en démarque , et Simone Weil ... tr. [95] A few critics have taken an overall negative view. The coroner's report said that "the deceased did kill and slay herself by refusing to eat whilst the balance of her mind was disturbed". Still, as she saw it at this stage (before her discovery of the “enigma” of affliction), this did not mean that the capacity to attend to, and to care for, the suffering of others demanded “a miracle,” and so was something “supernatural.” What it demanded was, rather, a certain technique of compassion. Trouvé à l'intérieur – Page 494Workers: work with a method Simone Weil holds the Encyclopedists partially responsible for uprooting the Nation-State in its inception. They helped to uproot the French culture, in particular (and the Western culture in general), ... That possibility, if it were to be real one, depended on our capacity to shape social force in ways that encouraged the conditions of mutual and attentive human respect, and so human self-respect. Wrapped in this dramatic mystery, Saariaho’s musical textures, haunting and moribund, create a meditative state. Ses deux « grands œuvres » portent sur la condition ouvrière et l’enracinement. Her father was a medical doctor, and her brother, the 3-year older Andre, would become one of the most renowned mathematicians of the 20th century. Simone Weil (1909—1943) The French philosopher Simone Weil is a confronting and disconcerting figure in modern philosophy. is to say France and Romania. After Hitler rose to power in 1933, Weil spent much of her time trying to help German communists fleeing his regime. tr. She taught intermittently throughout the 1930s, taking several breaks due to poor health and to devote herself to political . How Simone Weil taught us to confront a world poisoned with lies. Trouvé à l'intérieur – Page xvii'L'eau du baptême' (Interview with Robert Ytier), Entretiens en marge du colloque de Sète (1979) sur les refus de Simone Weil (Extract from a series of nine broadcasts on France-Culture, 28 April-9 May 1 980), Paris: Association pour ... Absence is the key image for her metaphysics, cosmology, cosmogony, and theodicy. Réécouter Délices (ambiguës) de l'infidélité, Réécouter La plus grande collection de sursauts radio rapides jamais enregistrée, La plus grande collection de sursauts radio rapides jamais enregistrée, "Montre jamais ça à personne" : une odyssée intime et optimiste dans le box office de la semaine, Réécouter Droite et gauche unissent leurs voix contre la prolongation du pass sanitaire jusqu'à l'été prochain, Droite et gauche unissent leurs voix contre la prolongation du pass sanitaire jusqu'à l'été prochain. Simone Weil: First and Last Notebooks. Simone Weil. [83], According to Lissa McCullough, Weil would likely have been "intensely displeased" by the attention paid to her life rather than her works. The present book reflects on the life, work, and legacy of an exceptional and enigmatic woman: the philosopher and French Jewish mystic Simone Weil. Affliction was associated both with necessity and with chance—it was fraught with necessity because it was hard-wired into existence itself, and thus imposed itself upon the sufferer with the full force of the inescapable, but it was also subject to chance inasmuch as chance, too, is an inescapable part of the nature of existence. Weil’s contributions to this literature—Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation and The Need for Roots: Prelude towards a declaration of duties towards mankind—were never finally completed, but what was completed lets us see how she brought the moral seriousness she had developed and explored in the years since 1934 to those political concerns she had always had. Simone Weil, (born February 3, 1909, Paris, France—died August 24, 1943, Ashford, Kent, England), French mystic, social philosopher, and activist in the French Resistance during World War II, whose posthumously published works had particular influence on French and English social thought.. However, this notion of the necessity of evil does not mean that we are simply, originally, and continually doomed; on the contrary, Weil tells us that "Evil is the form which God's mercy takes in this world". B. Tauris, London, 2014. Beauty also served a soteriological function for Weil: "Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right to the soul." It followed that the primordial caring constitutive of the ethical must look always and first to the physical needs of other human beings. "[99], French philosopher, Christian mystic and social activist. Trouvé à l'intérieur – Page 11... interest in Weil's political theory over the last decade in France and in the United States,47 this edited volume is the first collection of essays in English devoted exclusively to Simone Weil's political thought and in particular, ... "Seul grand esprit de notre temps" selon Albert Camus, l'œuvre considérable de Simone Weil s’impose comme une critique implacable du monde actuel. University of Chicago Press, 200 pp., $20.00. Simone Weil, (born February 3, 1909, Paris, France—died August 24, 1943, Ashford, Kent, England), French mystic, social philosopher, and activist in the French Resistance during World War II, whose posthumously published works had particular influence on French and English social thought.. 3:14. Affliction destroyed the “I” of attachment, but it did not destroy or extinguish the possibility of ethical life and so the obligation to attend to such affliction. Trouvé à l'intérieur – Page 40entretiens Olivier Germain-Thomas Radio-France. Direction France culture ... Il est également l'éditeur de La Pesanteur et la Grâce, de Simone Weil, anthologie des cahiers que lui avait confiés la philosophe avant sa mort. Emma Crawford and Mario van der Ruhr, (Routledge Classics, London, 2002. (SE 10,13). Pendle Hill is grateful to Dwight Macdonald for his permission to reprint the Politics pamphlet edition of Simone Weil's essay. Of the piece, music critic Olivia Giovetti wrote: "Framing her soprano soloist as Simone’s imaginary sister (Literal? Ce que Simone Weil a admiré dans le livre de Bernanos, c'est la vérité qu'il dit sur la guerre, quitte à dénoncer ce qui avait été son propre camp et ceux qui emportait alors ses . (See Thibon's Introduction to Gravity and Grace (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952). One day I managed to approach her. This, for Weil, was just how it was when it came to loving attention. [15] Like the Renaissance thinker Pico della Mirandola, her interests in other religions were universal and she attempted to understand each religious tradition as an expression of transcendent wisdom. The very titles brought out, in a way only implicit in Oppression and Liberty, the untimeliness of her moral and political thought. Does it matter? She may have been something even rarer: a true contemplative who still had many deep flaws. This idea of attending to, of caring for, and so being penetrated by, a suffering that removed from its bearers “everything that makes us human” meant for Weil two things. A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, On the Abolition of All Political Parties, "The Logic of the Rebel: On Simone Weil and Albert Camus,", "What We Owe to Others: Simone Weil's Radical Reminder,", Simone Weil: Portrait of a Self-Exiled Jew, http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/simone-weil.htm, "Course Catalogue - The Philosophy of Simone Weil (PHIL10161)", Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, "The Weil Conjectures by Karen Olsson review – maths and mysticism", "Friday Film: Simone Weil's Mission of Empathy", "Les agrégés de l'enseignement secondaire. Trouvé à l'intérieur – Page 549Bell R.H. ( éd . et introd . par ) Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture , Cambridge University Press , 1993 , 318 p . Simone Weil : The Way of Justice as Compassion , Lanham , Rowman and Littlefield Publishers , 1998 . First published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. tr. durée : 00:59:42 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Adèle Van Reeth - Dans les années 30, à l'usine, la philosophe Simone Weil. As she wrote in her early essay, “The Iliad or The Poem of Force”: Anybody who is in our vicinity exercises a certain power over us by his very presence, and a power that belongs to him alone, that is, the power of halting, repressing, modifying each movement that our body sketches out. [18], Weil was born in her parents' apartment in Paris on 3 February 1909, the daughter of Bernard Weil (1872–1955), a medical doctor from agnostic Alsatian Jews, who moved to Paris after the German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine. Weil, of course, was not an analytic philosopher, nor a proto-postmodernist. As such, it had to be a society free from oppression; and so a society in which all could (and did) attend to others, rather than viewing them indifferently, or as facilitating or hindering some personal or sectional interest or goal. However, there was another sense in which Weil was concerned to find a ground for morality. Simone Weil con su padre. She was attracted to Catholicism, but declined to be baptized at that time, preferring to remain outside due to "the love of those things that are outside Christianity". See Malcolm Muggeridge, "The Infernal Grove", Fontana: Glasgow (pbk), 1975, p. 210. Weil nació en una familia acomodada, de ascendencia judía y agnóstica, en la que la joven pensadora recibió múltiples estímulos intelectuales. Simone Weil (to view image author and license . Here, for Weil, was a fundamental contradiction at the heart of ethical life. After her untimely death at age thirty-four, Simone Weil quickly achieved legendary status among a whole generation of thinkers. 55 Simone Weil: A Life by Simone Petrement (Pantheon: 563 pp. Il y a 100 ans, la France réduisait le temps de travail d'après cette célèbre maxime "8 heures de travail, 8 heures de loisir, 8 heures de repos". Springsted, Eric O. [25], After a lifetime of battling illness and frailty, Weil died in August 1943 from cardiac failure at the age of 34. [76] As Weil writes, by loving these three objects (neighbor, world’s beauty, and religious ceremonies), one indirectly loves God before “God comes in person to take the hand of his future bride,” since prior to God's arrival, one's soul cannot yet directly love God as the object. [29] Her first attempt at the entrance examination for the École Normale Supérieure in June 1927 ended in failure, due to her low marks in history. She was led to pray for the first time in her life as Lawrence A. Cunningham relates: Below the town is the beautiful church and convent of San Damiano where Saint Clare once lived. . For the roots of the oppression that diminished, even sometimes obliterated, our capacity to attend to the basic needs of others did not lie solely, even mainly, in the fact of private property. For if she could not give an account of how the capacity for selflessly receptive attention to the suffering of others arose in and from the human condition, and so from human nature, then her moral vision would simply hang there, a fantasy interesting, if at all, only for what it revealed of its author’s personality. Dorothy . Our relationship stopped there. It was just at this point, however, where everything was in the balance, that the inadequacy of her previous understanding revealed itself, for with affliction caring attention—being penetrated by the object—was “impossible.” In the essay “The Love of God and Affliction”, she wrote that the afflicted: …have no words to express what has happened to them. Victors and vanquished are brought equally near us; under the same head, both are seen as counterparts of the poet, and the listener as well. Implausible and impractical to a fault, arguably more of a mystic than a philosopher, Weil is unlikely to appeal to sober rationalists, even in her most neutered guises. tr. See more. ), The Need for Roots. As a schoolgirl, she declared her solidarity with the Communist Left. "[91] In 1951, Albert Camus wrote that she was "the only great spirit of our times. Thoughts from French philosophy. [30] During these years, Weil attracted much attention with her radical opinions. Rendez-vous sur l'application Radio France pour découvrir tous les autres épisodes / Une grande voix de France Culture reprend une figure. Découvrez les performances de ce lycée public . Ethical life presupposed caring for others; and caring for others counted most essentially when others were in need, and so when they were suffering. Trouvé à l'intérieurco-édition France Culture Jérôme Clément, Jean Rozat ... Lévi-Strauss fit appel au mathématicien André Weil, frère de la philosophe Simone Weil, pour clarifier les relations familiales et étudier le mythe d'Œdipe dans cette perspective. Simone Weil, writing at the height of World War II in some of the darkest hours of the struggle against fascism, arrived at a similar conclusion in her oft-neglected but magnificent book, The Need for Roots (1943). He said, “the philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” To change it in an ethical direction and from an ethical stance, however, one had to do more than simply say or think that one understood the oppression, and so the suffering, one sought to identify, alleviate, and eliminate. However, she refused special treatment because of her long-standing political idealism and her detachment from material things. ), McCullough, Lissa, The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil, (I. HS 9/1570/1, National Archives, Kew, Eric O. Springsted, “The Baptism of Simone Weil” in Spirit, Nature and Community: Issues in the Thought of Simone Weil (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994) -. (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. tr. Not only because the perception or awareness of the beautiful demanded just that impersonal attention ethical life demanded, but—and this was the astounding and contradictory, indeed the redeeming aspect of affliction—because that which we selflessly attended to, that which we allowed to penetrate us as it was in itself, and so in all its truth, was, for that very reason, seen and experienced, even in the horrors of affliction, as (also, at the same time, eternally) beautiful.
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