The immediate and guiding aim of this book is to introduce the contemporary reader to the work and thought of Simone Weil.

In Simone Weil Robert Chenavier explores the work of Simone Weil and demonstrates how she brought together spiritual life and the human struggle for solidarity.

Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909–43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies.

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a philosopher, theologian, political activist, and mystic whose work endures among the greatest spiritual thinking in human history.

Known as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909–43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly