Life lived. A portrait of a thinker of freedom: Simone Weil – Martina Bengert and Wolfgang Eilenberger in conversation

A series of talks on thinking about freedom: Simone Weil

The event in the series “ Lived Life. A portrait of freedom thinkers” is dedicated to the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (1909 – 1943). Coming from an upper middle-class Jewish family, she was already considered a rebel in her early youth. Against the backdrop of a radicalization of political systems in Europe, Simone Weil asks about the causes of the spreading unease: Why do we live in an unjust society in which the individual cannot be free and content? Martina Bengert, Professor of Romance Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin and mysticism researcher, and Wolfram Eilenberger, writer and philosopher (“Fire of Freedom”), introduce Simone Weil in conversation. Frankfurt publicist Rainer Hank (F.A.Z.) curates and moderates the series. “ Lived Life” is a guest event of the Karl Hermann Flach Foundation and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

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