Overview

This book argues that Simone Weil’s short life (1909–1943) is best understood as deeply invested in and engaged with the world around her, which she knew she would leave behind sooner rather than later if she took risks on the side of the oppressed. To present Weil first and foremost as a political philosopher, Benjamin Davis places her work in conversation with feminist philosophy, decolonial philosophy, and Marxism. Against the backdrop of Weil’s commitments, Davis reads Weil into debates in contemporary Critical Theory. He argues that in the battles of today, we need to reconnect with Simone Weil’s ethical and political imagination, which offers a critique of oppression as part of a deeper attention to the world.

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In this moving account of Simone Weil's political thought, Benjamin Davis merges world history and personal testimony, theory and living, brain and heart. He shows that one's scholarship and one's life cannot be separated easily. -- Christy Wampole, Princeton University

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Benjamin P. Davis is a postdoctoral fellow in African American Studies at Saint Louis University. Davis’s scholarship is in the areas of human rights, Decolonial Theory, and Caribbean Philosophy.

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