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Simone Weil: On Affliction, Attention, and the Weight of the World

Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers — a mystic, activist, and philosopher whose concepts of affliction and attention offer an account of suffering and ethics unlike anything else in the Western tradition.

March 7, 2026


Simone Weil: On Affliction, Attention, and the Weight of the World
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