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History of Ideas: Simone Weil
Past Present Future
The Cult of Personality
This is not just an argument about the institutions of modern life and the way in which they corrupt the truth. It's a rejection of all the ways in which vile things modern life is organised as a cult of personality. To think of any of us as having our humanity captured in our personalities is a mistake, a fatal and fateful mistake that we almost all make in the modern world because the modern world is a cult of the person.
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