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Robert Zaretsky "The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas"
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the intellectual historian Dr Robert Zaretsky chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas. Known as the ‘patron saint of all outsiders’, Simone Weil was one of the 20th century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
Why Robert Zaretsky chose the title: The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
Why Simone’s ideals and philosophies are so relevant today, 80 years…
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