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Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Simone Vay's Notions of Affliction and Attention
The word affliction is the usual English translation of the French Le Malerge. When translators instead plump for affliction, what they're trying to convey is that Simone Vay understood something deeper than mere suffering. By affliction, she meant that state that human beings are driven to by forces outside of their control.
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