André Weil’s rigorous mathematics Unlike the prominent French mathematicians of previous generations, André, who was born in 1906 and died in 1998, spent little time philosophizing.

In “The Need for Roots,” Simone Weil offered a shaky foundation for “a new patriotism.” Accessibility statement Skip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness ...

In 1942, Simone Weil was tasked by Charles de Gaulle’s Free France movement to write a report on how France could be rebuilt after driving out the Nazi invaders. What she handed in was something else ...

Simone Weil Photo: Alamy Stock Photo Walter Russell Mead takes note of the meeting of the minds between populists and techno elites, both of whom dislike government bureaucrats (“ American ...

An overview of “Simone Weil: A Life in Letters,” edited and annotated by Robert Chenavier and André A. Devaux, about the French Jewish philosopher and author of “The Iliad, or The Poem of ...

Simone Weil once told a student, “What I cannot stand is compromise.” This unyielding stance underpinned the French philosopher’s life and work, which offered profound insights into a ...

August 23, 2002, will be the fifty-ninth anniversary of the death of Simone Weil, a French Jew revered by many Christians as an uncanonized saint.Exegetes of diverse faiths (and none) have written at ...

In 1943, two of the century’s most original thinkers—Ludwig Wittgenstein and Simone Weil—found themselves in bomb-battered London, looking for medical work to help the war effort.

Simone Weil, whom we meet next, is pretty much the polar opposite of Beauvoir. Indeed, late in the volume Eilenberger notes: If we compare Weil’s Notebooks with Beauvoir’s diaries and writings ...