Category: France
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Simone Weil and Albert Camus: Publishing Her Work in Postwar France
Read More: Simone Weil and Albert Camus: Publishing Her Work in Postwar FranceCamus’s role as an editor in bringing Simone Weil’s posthumous writings to French readers.
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Simone Weil and Free France: Work in London and Her Last Months
Read More: Simone Weil and Free France: Work in London and Her Last MonthsHow Simone Weil came to work for the Free French in London, what she wrote there, and how sources describe…
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French Philosophy in the 1930s: The World Simone Weil Wrote In
Read More: French Philosophy in the 1930s: The World Simone Weil Wrote InThe teachers, schools and authors that formed Simone Weil’s thinking in interwar France.
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Simone Weil in French Factories: The Year of Manual Labor
Read More: Simone Weil in French Factories: The Year of Manual LaborA source-based guide to Simone Weil’s factory leave and its effect on her thought.
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Simone Weil in Marseille: Vichy France and Her Writing
Read More: Simone Weil in Marseille: Vichy France and Her WritingA source-based guide to Simone Weil’s Marseille years.
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Simone Weil as a Teacher: Le Puy, Auxerre, Roanne and Bourges
Read More: Simone Weil as a Teacher: Le Puy, Auxerre, Roanne and BourgesA source-based guide to Simone Weil’s years as a lycee teacher in provincial France and her evening teaching of workers.
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Simone Weil in France: Paris, the Provinces and the War Years
Read More: Simone Weil in France: Paris, the Provinces and the War YearsFollow Simone Weil through France, from a Paris childhood and the classroom of Alain to provincial teaching, factory work, Marseille…
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Simone Weil and Alain: A French Teacher and His Student
Read More: Simone Weil and Alain: A French Teacher and His StudentWho was Alain, the French philosopher and teacher of Simone Weil, and what do the encyclopedias say about his classroom…
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Simone Weil in Paris: Family, Lycee and the Ecole Normale
Read More: Simone Weil in Paris: Family, Lycee and the Ecole NormaleA look at Simone Weil’s early life in Paris, from a secular Jewish family and early schooling to Alain’s classroom…