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#simone-weil
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Better pay cannot repair work that destroys attention: Simone Weil was right about the factory
In 1934 and 1935 Simone Weil left teaching and took factory jobs in and around Paris, at Alsthom and later at Renault, as an unskilled worker on the machines. She kept a journal. What shocked her was not only the low pay.…
Started by Hugo Marchetti5 replies -
Weil called rootedness the least recognised need of the soul. Can a docker who has moved three times have roots?
Simone Weil wrote The Need for Roots in London in 1943, as a proposal for what France should become after the war. It opens with a list of the needs of the soul, order, liberty, obedience, responsibility, equality, honour and others, and…
Started by Hugo Marchetti3 replies -
From the Book corner: Simone Weil’s Gravity and Grace, and attention as a moral act
This week's book is Gravity and Grace, and it is an unusual one. Simone Weil never wrote it. After her death in 1943, her friend Gustave Thibon arranged passages from the notebooks she had left with him under headings such as "Void…
Started by The Editors3 replies