Simone Weil, a brilliant French philosopher, died in an English hospital on August 24 1943. Raised in a secular Jewish home, she was driven by an exacting conscience to share in the experience of working people. She took a year’s leave from her teaching job to work in factories.
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Many good essays online. Best guide to her religious thought is “Waiting for God.” And “Simone Weil: Essential Writings.”
