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For those struggling to cope with Trump's flurry of executive orders, Simone Weil and 'The Iliad' offer useful guidance.

Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.

Actrice dans le film "L'attachement" de Carine Tardieu, Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi a failli rater un moment précieux d'intimité avec sa fille Oumy lorsqu'elle était plus jeune. Un moment resté gravé dans ...

This powerful exhibition makes space for Hélène de Beauvoir to exist in the cultural consciousness apart from her more famous ...

A note about the meeting of the minds between populists and techno elites.

Le rapport à l’autre, à soi, à l’identité traverse la pensée de philosophes comme Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas ou Simone ...

“It is true what they say: the truth hurts.” Nina Simone was born to be a guiding voice. From the moment she entered this world, she knew her path would differ greatly from those around her, and she ...

Suzanna Murawski on Simone Weil, an art heist & Picasso in Cleveland.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.” As an instance of poetic meter (iambic pentameter, to be precise), Alexander Pope’s famous line works superbly. As a matter of ethics, though, it works less ...

En 2020, les œuvres de Clémence Ramnoux, philosophe, sont rééditées, révélant son apport unique. Première femme à explorer les présocratiques, elle éclaire la pensée humaine face à la nuit, au mal et ...