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Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Attention as Vacancy and Patience: Simone Weil's Understanding
Simone Vé challenges our understanding of attention and offers it as a cure for the human condition. Attention, for her, is not performative but a patient vacancy. To truly attend to someone, we must suppress our own ego and give ourselves completely to them. This requires realizing that something other than ourselves is real, which is difficult but crucial, according to Vé.
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