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Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Weil, Camus, and Orwell as anarchists
Albert Camus and Simone Vay shared a concern that ideas and abstractions were replacing genuine human connection. They were both on the political left but strongly opposed totalitarianism, fascism, and communism. They believed that revolutionaries and ideologues were willing to sacrifice the present for an imaginary future, leading to nihilism. Camus, Vay, and George Orwell were all mavericks on the left, often distrusted for not conforming. They were more sympathetic to anarchists than socialists or communists. Thinking was of utmost importance to them.
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