Simone Weil: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

J.M. Perrin and G. Thibon, Simone Weil as We Knew Her (1953); Simone Pétrement, Simone Weil: A Life (1976); Gabriella Fiori, Simone Weil, an Intellectual Biography (1989); David McLellan, Utopian Pessimist: The Life and Thought of Simone Weil (1990).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: ABC Religion and Ethics - Commitment to ‘the Real’: Simone Weil’s approach to philosophy and the arts. Oct 11, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 20, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 30, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Great Lives - Simone Weil. Jan 22, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Simone Weil: Making the World my Body. Jun 05, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 15, 2024
Add new Web site: Famous Philosophers - Simone Weil. Dec 19, 2023
Add new Web site: PBS - Other Voices - Biography of Simone Weil. Sep 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Official Site of American Weil Society. Jun 01, 2023
Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Simone Weil. Mar 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Internet Encycloepdia of Philosophy - Biography of Simone Weil. Jan 27, 2023
Add new Web site: The European Graduate School - Biography of Simone Weil. Apr 10, 2015
Image of Simone Weil added. Jan 20, 2012
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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