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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Le moment depuis longtemps pr vu est arriv , o le capitalisme est sur le point de voir son d veloppement arr t par des limites infranchissables. De quelque mani re que l'on interpr te le ph nom ne de l'accumulation, il est clair que capitalisme signifie essentiellement... Read Full Overview

L'ouvrage intitul R flexions sur les causes de la libert et de l'oppression sociale est un essai de la philosophe fran aise Simone Weil, crit en 1934 et publi en 1955 dans le recueil Oppression et libert , dans la collection Espoir que dirigeait Albert Camus aux ditions... Read Full Overview

La p riode pr sente est de celles o tout ce qui semble normalement constituer une raison de vivre s' vanouit, o l'on doit, sous peine de sombrer dans le d sarroi ou l'inconscience, tout remettre en question. Que le triomphe des mouvements autoritaires et nationalistes ruine... Read Full Overview

R SUM Dans "R flexions sur les causes de la libert et de l'oppression sociale", Simone Weil explore les dynamiques profondes qui sous-tendent la libert et l'oppression dans les soci t s modernes. Cet essai, consid r par Weil elle-m me comme son oeuvre principale, s'attache... Read Full Overview

Are civilised people essentially freer than primitive ones? If not, what pattern of social life could make it so? Weil analyses political and social oppression, its permanent causes, mechanism and contemporary forms.