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When I last went on @RevLeftRadio to discuss Sartre and Camus's split, I briefly mentioned that Simone Weil was the one who lived the real existential life. That's because she had the rarest trait that I know of among humans: she behaved as though she actually believed her ideas.https://twitter.com/RevLeftRadio/status/1233445192553914371 …
Feat: Corey Mohler ( Episode is here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/weil
It was a real pleasure learning about Simone and her genuinely fascinating life! pic.twitter.com/hsA0wuhDI7
Now we follow up with her biography, which I claim can be read as part II and III of The Brothers Karamazov, where Dostoyevsky planned for Alyosha to become a failed socialist revolutionary and experience real suffering, then, without naivety or ignorance, learns true religion.
Simone Weil embodies perfectly Dostoyevky's idea of the existential hero: absolute commitment to their own ideas, full incorporation of science into the problems of life, a deep understand of the real human condition, and ultimately still retaining a faith in the transcendent.
In her brief life she: - was one of only five women to get a philosophy degree at École Normale - hosted and debated Trotsky in France - worked for a year in a factory - fought in the Spanish Civil war - worked in the French resistance - became an influential Christian mystic
All in all, she lived entirely the life of a Saint without contradictions, and always subjecting herself first to the suffering of the world, and is totally unique among all people that I know in that she lived as a saint for both the communists and the Christians.
What's the title of the bio you refer to in the episode?
Simone Weil: A Life, by Simone Pétrement. It was excellent.
Never knew the quote about Switzerland in The Third Man was from her!
I always believe, looking back on it, that Miss Grotke from Recess was based on her.pic.twitter.com/qgjJLrS6mf
Wow, thank you so much for sharing this!! Learning about Simone Weil and her life today has been fascinating and inspiring. 
Awesome! Really exciting listen! Love the collaboration 
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