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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

Simone Vé's De-Creation

The idea of de-creation came up in a recent conversation about the art of listening with Kate Murphy, a really great writer and reporter. The way I described it to her was to say that it's something like emptying ourselves of ourselves. It sounds like this is exactly what Simone Vé meant by this idea: We have to do just this in order to truly attend to another human being.

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