Aspects of Writing and Politics in the Philosophy of Simone Weil

Authors

  • Emilse Galvis Cristancho Author Universidad de los Andes

Keywords:

writing, politics, Simone Weil, working conditions, materiality.

Abstract

The article looks at several aspects of the ethical and political dimensions of Simone Weil's writing on her experience as a factory worker in 1934-1935. It also attempts to follow the steps she would have taken to rethink oppression in relation to the gestures, sounds, looks and manifestations of the working condition. These two records are intertwined in Weil's reflections on the plight of workers. Based on a particular Marxist heritage, she problematizes oppression in a certain materiality of both the discourse and the bodies that move about in the scenario of the factory, a question that gives this thinking a relevant specificity in a certain tendency in contemporary French philosophy.

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Author Biography

Emilse Galvis Cristancho, Universidad de los Andes

Estudiante del doctorado en Filosofía de la Universidad de los Andes. Este texto hace parte del proyecto ECOS-Nord/COLCIENCIAS "Comprender la subjetivación política hoy: experiencias y conceptualizaciones (Colombia-Francia)" y del grupo de estudio “Marx y la democracia” de la Universidad Autónoma de Colombia-2015

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Published

2015-11-06

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Research Articles

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