Simone Weil and the Intellect of Grace

As a thinker, mystic and social critic, Simone Weil is one of the most extraordinary figures of the 20th century. She was a Marxist who experienced the relations of power between producing and ruling classes first hand as a field and factory worker. She was an internationalist who felt that the fall of Paris was a ''great day for Indo-China'', and yet she wanted to fight for France. Camus called h...