Social philosophy · Attention · 1909–1943
Simone Weil
See those whom force crushes.
Paris · Marseille · London
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
Work and freedom
Weil investigates how division of labor, machinery and collective organization can impose an opaque necessity on workers. Freedom requires understanding and directing the conditions of action.
Reflections on the Causes of Liberty and Social OppressionAttention and grace
This collection of fragments explores the gravity of psychological and social mechanisms, attention and grace. Its brief formulations demand a reading that preserves their tensions.
Gravity and GraceRoots and obligations
Written for Free France, this work asks how to rebuild collective life after war through needs of the soul, obligations and rootedness. Weil also criticizes the idolatry of national force.
The Need for Roots