Oppression and Liberty - Couverture souple

Weil, Simone

 
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Synopsis

Are civilised people essentially freer than primitive ones? If not, what pattern of social life could make it so? Weil analyses political and social oppression, its permanent causes, mechanism and contemporary forms.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the most original philosophical, religious and political thinkers of the twentieth century; besides working as a teacher, a factory worker and a farmhand, she fought for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was a member of the French resistance.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Are civilised people essentially freer than primitive ones? If not, what pattern of social life could make it so? Weil analyses political and social oppression, its permanent causes, mechanism and contemporary forms.

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