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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Simone Vé's Call to Attend to the World

Frida Ghitis: Simone Vé's writings on affliction offer a diagnosis of the human condition. She says we live in a machine like world that is turning us into machine like creatures. We can only attend to the world when we stop attending to ourselves, she writes. To attend to somebody else for her means to wait for somebody else.Ghitis: attention is the purest and the rarest form of generosity. It's when we give ourselves completely to another person.

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