Is learning math worthwhile? Sometimes agreeing and sometimes disagreeing, André and Simone Weil were the sort of siblings who would argue about such questions. André achieved renown as a ...

The French philosopher Simone Weil, for her part, seemed to wish to renounce her Judaism ... and secular French upbringing and “think about Judaism from the inside.” Art heists always grip the public ...

By Rosemary Waugh Paying homage to the life of Simone Weil, staunch supporter of the impoverished working classes, with opera – today viewed as one of the most bourgeois of art forms – might seem ...

Simone Weil (1909–1943) in Marseilles in 1940 ... Weil employs the idea of politics as an art form. Like other arts, politics is “an art governed by multi-layered composition”.

Very few children develop a political consciousness, but Simone Weil was different and precocious ... anti-colonialist who turned suffering into an art form and a vehicle of transcendence via ...