BARBARA ZEDDA

L'arrancare della formica. Il percorso di Simone Weil

N. 202

Summary - Simone Weil was a moral and political philosopher, writer, teacher, activist, worker and mystic. This article tries to explain, through an analysis of essential and recurrent terms - detachment, attention, necessity, vocation - of Weil's language, the nucleus of her thought: the concept of thought-action.Simone Weil has been categorized a number of ways but the Weil's thought must be examined in the indissoluble unity in which she lived them. Weil's political thought is an integral part of a lived philosophy, in which analysis and doctrine are inseparable from the articulation of an intensely personal, ultimately religious experience.