Words of memory: Simone Weil
“The helplessness one feels at a given moment, an impotence which must never be regarded as definitive, cannot dispense with remaining faithful to oneself, nor excuse surrender to the enemy, whatever mask he may assume.”In 1933, Simone Weil (1909-1943) – French-Jewish philosopher, activist, mystic,...
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| প্রকাশিত: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/temoigner, |
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| বিন্যাস: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire
2026
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | “The helplessness one feels at a given moment, an impotence which must never be regarded as definitive, cannot dispense with remaining faithful to oneself, nor excuse surrender to the enemy, whatever mask he may assume.”In 1933, Simone Weil (1909-1943) – French-Jewish philosopher, activist, mystic, and always unorthodox and idiosyncratic – wrote an essay on leftist discourses about war and peace. After the experience of WWI, pacifist strands of thinking had gained strength in socialist milie... |
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