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 ... Mehr ...

The life and work of Simone Weil – philosopher, mystic, activist, and enigma – has defied easy description and categorization. Although Albert Camus categorised her as ‘the only great spirit of our times’, in recent years attention has been given to her metaphysics, her political philosophy, and the radicality and subversiveness of her ideas. Beyond ... Mehr ...