Intellectually precocious, Weil also expressed social awareness at an early age. The mathematician André Weil was her brother. Her father was a medical doctor, and her brother, the 3-year older Andre, would become one of the most renowned mathematicians of the 20th century.
Simone has job listed on their profile. From the start Weil was both intellectually precocious and morally disconcerting. Weil would have a personal crisis in the face of what she considered.
See full list on iep. Weil’s writings (collected now in volumes) were produced in a mere years. Much—including much of that which is most widely known—was published posthumously. Most of the work published in her lifetime was in the form of short essays for small political and literary journals, addressed to particular audiences.
Such writings form only a small part of her collected work. During her short life, she was most widely known as a political writer of the Left, an unorthodox and critical Marxist. I envied her for having a heart that could beat right across the world.
One day I managed to approach her. At this point, for all its elegance and clarity, Weil’s moral philosophy was, ultimately, nothing out of the ordinary. (more…)