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History of Ideas: Simone Weil

Past Present Future

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Simone Vile's Disappointment With the Catholic Church

Simone Vile was a self-hating Jew who thought that the Jews were a rootless cosmopolitan people. mysticism took her over in the 1930s and culminating in a set of religious experiences in 1938 which brought Christ into her life but she couldn't bring herself to become a Catholic. She refused to be baptized into the Catholic Church despite having converted in her own mind to its faith so it extends to attitude to a whole range of institutions across not just religious life but political life. In 1943 she wrote an essay calling for the abolition of all political parties at the end of her life.

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