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History of Ideas 6: Simone Weil

Past Present Future

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Exploring the perception of tuberculosis as a romantic disease for artists as they discuss the early deaths of famous writers and artists due to the disease, including Henry Thoreau, George Orwell, and Simone Weil, along with Simone Weil's intellectual nature and her contempt for intellectuals who didn't act on their political views.

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