Simone Weil
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Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, political activist and labourer. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality and politics have remained widely influenti
Weil in 1943
Weil with her father
Weil at age 13, during a family holiday to Belgium.
Leon Trotsky, for whom Weil arranged a period of residence at her parents' apartment in Paris in December 1933. Weil was one of the rare few who appeared to hold her own with the Red Army founder.
The Need for Roots
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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind is a book by Simone Weil. After Weil's death, her parents asked her close friend Boris Souvarine to publish her work under the ti
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…to desk work in London analyzing reports from resistance movements, although this did give her time to write one of her largest and best known works: The Need for Roots. During this time Weil also rapidly wrote many other texts, including Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations and Note on the General Suppression…
L'enracinement, Simone Weil, Gallimard
4 Carlton gardens, London. During WWII the building served as provisional headquarters of the Free French Resistance movement. Weil was stationed here while she wrote Need for Roots.
Simone Weil
Weil in Marseilles