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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 Vay's Life in the Face of the Depression

Simone Vay went to the Econo-Mausipierrier, which is sort of a mashup of our Harvard and MIT. She taught for three years in provincial cities before she realized that this wasn't real life. In 1934, when the Depression is really beginning to take hold in France, she manages to find jobs in the Paris region. And what she discovers is alarming.

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