Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other

Simone Weil

Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Country
United States
Published
28 August 2003
Pages
256
ISBN
9780742522824

Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other

Simone Weil

In 1931, Simone Weil read an article by Louis Roubaud in the Petit Parisien that exposed the Yen Bay massacre in Indochina. That article opened Weil’s eyes, and from then until her death in exile in 1943, she cared most deeply about the French colonial situation. Weil refused to accept the contradiction between the image of France as champion of the rights of man and the reality of France’s exploitation and oppression of the peoples in its territories. Weil wrote thirteen articles or letters about the situation, writings originally publishsed in French journals or in French collections of her work. These translations introduce to English-speaking scholars and students this important element of Weil’s political consciousness.

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