Simone Weil is the patron saint of anomalous persons

Weil’s best-known works – The Need for Roots, Gravity and Grace, ‘The Iliad or the Poem of Force’, Waiting for God, and On the Abolition of All Political Parties, all published posthumously – offer only snapshots of the philosopher’s wide-ranging diagnoses of societal maladies. Weil, a firm believer in free thought, argued that: ‘The intelligence is defeated as soon as the expression of one’s thought is preceded, explicitly or implicitly, by the little word “we”.’ In a resonant passage in The Need for Roots, Weil writes: ‘A democracy where public life is made up of strife between political parties is incapable of preventing the formation of a party whose avowed aim is the overthrow of that democracy.’

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