![]() Eliot to say of her, "We must simply expose ourselves to the personality of a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of a saint." Today, nearly sixty years after her death, her work has, perhaps, an even greater immediacy and relevance. Born in France, a contemporary of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, Weil inspired T.S. Her writing was visionary and her vision, radical. She confronted the rootlessness of modern life and the death of the spirit in an age of materialism. Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a teacher, classical scholar, philosopher, political activist and seeker of the truth. Eliot to say of her, "We must simply expose ourselves to the personality of a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of a saint." Today, nearly sixty years after. ![]()
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