On the Abolition of All Political Parties View Online By Simone Weil
| Title | : | On the Abolition of All Political Parties |
| Author | : | Simone Weil |
| Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Page | : | 104 pages |
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An NYRB Classics Original A brilliant woman who was a study in fiercely maintained contradictions, a star student who went to work on a factory line, a Jewish convert to Catholicism who insisted on refusing baptism, Simone Weil is one of the most intransigent and taxing of spiritual masters, always willing to push her thinking and us one step beyond the apparently reason An NYRB Classics Original A brilliant woman who was a study in fiercely maintained contradictions, a star student who went to work on a factory line, a Jewish convert to Catholicism who insisted on refusing baptism, Simone Weil is one of the most intransigent and taxing of spiritual masters, always willing to push her thinking and us one step beyond the apparently reasonable in pursuit of the one truth, the one good She asks hard questions and avoids easy answers In this essay now in English for the first time she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that will have particular resonance in present day America Examining the dynamic of power and propaganda caused by party spirit, the increasing disregard for truth in favor of opinion, and the consequent corruption of education, journalism, and art, Weil proposes that politics can only begin where the party spirit comes to an end.This volume also reprints an admiring portrait of Weil by the Nobel laureate Czes aw Mi osz and an essay about Weil s friendship with Albert Camus by the translator Simon Leys
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Simone Weil was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace Lorraine to Germany Her brilliance, ascetic lifestyle, introversion, and eccentricity limited her ability to mix with others, but not to teach and participate in political movements of her time She wrote extensively with both in Simone Weil was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace Lorraine to Germany Her brilliance, ascetic lifestyle, introversion, and eccentricity limited her ability to mix with others, but not to teach and participate in political movements of her time She wrote extensively with both insight and breadth about political movements of which she was a part and later about spiritual mysticism Weil biographer Gabriella Fiori writes that Weil was a moral genius in the orbit of ethics, a genius of immense revolutionary range 
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An NYRB Classics Original A brilliant woman who was a study in fiercely maintained contradictions, a star student who went to work on a factory line,
104 pagesSimone Weil
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