Simone Weil

Simone Weil's work offers a voice for those segments of society that are generally under-represented misrepresented or totally silent in conventional historical and philosophical writings. In this introduction to Simone Weil's ideas and the political and intellectual circumstances of her work the authors make Weil's complex and at times elusive ideas accessible to readers. They delineate how her ideas evolved and provide compelling excerpts from her writings to let her speak for herself. In addition the authors provide their own interpretation of Weil's work.