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.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, t
Simone Weil
…individuals. Pope Paul VI said that Weil was one of his three greatest influences. Weil is also cited as an influence by Iris Murdoch, Jacques Derrida, Albert Camus, Franz Fanon, Emmanuel Levinas, George Grant, Adrienne Rich, Jacqueline Rose, and Thomas Merton. Weil's popularity began to decline in the late 1960s…
Portrait from New York World-Telegram and The Sun Photograph Collection, 1957
A 20th-century postcard of the University of Algiers
Camus crowning Stockholm's Lucia on 13 December 1957, three days after accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature
Albert Camus's gravestone