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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

CHAPTER

The Importance of Force in the Social World

In her journal, Simone Vay writes that she cannot think about the nature of labor. We are all creatures of force, none of us masters force, says author Sean Connery. The logic of war turns those on the side fighting for the good into those who believe they control force and don't care what other people's lives are like.

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