Autonomies: **Simone Weil: Reflections on barbarism (1939)**
https://autonomies.org/2025/12/simone-weil-reflections-on-barbarism-1939/
Many people nowadays, moved by the horrors of every kind that our time provides in a number overwhelming for anyone the least bit sensitive, think that, as a result of an excessively great technical power, or a kind of moral … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: **Simone Weil: Reflections on War**
https://autonomies.org/2025/12/simone-weil-reflections-on-war/
The perspectives of a revolution seem therefore quite restricted. For can a revolution avoid war? It is, however, on this feeble chance that we must stake everything or abandon all hope. Simone Weil The masks have fallen away, or they … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: **Simone Weil: The power of words (1937)**
https://autonomies.org/2025/12/simone-weil-the-power-of-words/
In every sphere, we seem to have lost the very elements of intelligence: the ideas of limit, measure, degree, proportion, relation, comparison, contingency, interdependence, interrelation of means and ends. To keep to the social level, our political universe is peopled … Continue reading →
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@evan I voted "About a year" because that's when I was doing research for my philosophy book, which included reading up on history.
I'm currently reading the biography of #SimoneWeil by Simone Pétrement, and that's full of a lot of 1930s and early 1940s history. But I don't know if that counts as "a book about history."