Simone Weil

Simone Weil aroused both admiration and fierce antipathy in life, and after her death she began to be read and studied with fascination by an ever-growing public. Eclectic and tireless writer and polemicist, fervent critic of Stalinism from the left, willing to experience first-hand factory work and even the reality of the front lines in the Spanish Civil War, an active participant in the French resistance from exile... until his death at just thirty-four years old, in the middle of World War II. In these pages, Michela Nacci guides us through the crucial phases of the life and thought of Simone Weil and sheds the keys to the complex and changing social and political ideas of an unparalleled intellectual in the turbulent first half of the 20th century, and to whom it has been defined in every possible way, from revolutionary and feminist sans le dire to anti-modern champion and religious mystic.