André Weil (left, in 1956) and Simone Weil (in 1922) were siblings who became prominent in mathematics and philosophy, respectively. Konrad Jacobs (right) and Anonymous (left) via Wikimedia Commons, ...
Istart my mornings by emailing everyone at my organization a roundup of immigration headlines and news. I’ve been working on the communications team at the National Immigrant Justice Center since I ...
Simone Weil once told a student, “What I cannot stand is compromise.” This unyielding stance underpinned the French philosopher’s life and work, which offered profound insights into a pressing issue ...
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“The Visionaries,” by Wolfram Eilenberger, examines the divergent theories of self and other developed in a time of crisis by Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil. By Jennifer ...
Simone Weil, edited by Robert Chenavier and André A. Devaux, trans. from the French by Nicholas Elliot. Belknap, $37.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-674-29237-6 This inessential collection traces the personal ...
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times. By Wolfram Eilenberger. Translated by Shaun Whiteside. Penguin Press; 400 pages; $32. Allen Lane; £25 In ...
In Praise of Failure. By Costica Bradatan. Harvard University Press; 288 pages; $29.95 and £26.95 Failure conceals success, or so argues Costica Bradatan, a philosopher, in this imaginative but ...
In its 90th year, the radical peace movement is reinvigorating itself by going hyper-local. Illustration by Sarah Fuller.(sarahfullerart.com) Simone Weil House is a century-old arts-and-crafts ...
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