About
Simone Weil, born in Paris in 1909, was a French philosopher and activist. A philosophy graduate, she shared the workers' condition by working in a factory, then fought in the Spanish Civil War. Her mystical encounter with Christianity in 1938 deeply marked her, though she never joined the Church. Exiled in London, she died in 1943. Her posthumously published work explores grace, rootedness, and attention.
* 1909-02-03 — † 1943-08-24
Major works
- La Pesanteur et la grâce (1947)essay
- L'Enracinement (1949)essay
- Attente de Dieu (1950)essay
- Cahiers (1951)notebooks
Key milestones
- 1928Entered the École Normale Supérieure.
- 1934Worked as a manual laborer at the Renault factory to share the workers' condition.
- 1938Had a mystical experience at the Abbey of Solesmes.
Themes
attentiongracerootednessworkspirituality
Sources: plato.stanford.edu · data.bnf.fr