Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other

by Simone Weil

Book Overview

In 1931, Simone Weil read an article by Louis Roubaud in the Petit Parisien that exposed the Yen Bay massacre in Indochina. That article opened Weil's eyes, and from then until her death in exile in 1943, she cared most deeply about the French colonial situation. Weil refused to accept the contradiction between the image of France as champion of the rights of man and the reality of France's exploitation and oppression of the peoples in its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742522830
• ISBN13: 9780742522831
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"