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(1995) Contemporary women philosophers, 1900-today, Dordrecht, Springer.
Few who knew Simone Weil remained neutral towards her. Simone de Beauvoir avoided her; her philosophy students revered her.1 The coroner claimed she starved herself to death; those who tended her found the claim absurd.2 De Gaulle thought her "crazy" and gave her a "make work" task; scholars find the result of that "make work" a profound piece of social-political philosophy.3 Some commentators call her "saintly"; others find her behavior merely maladaptive. These counter claims create a perennial interest in Weil's personal life and many commentators fashion her in mythic rather than descriptive terms.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-1114-0_13
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Lindemann, K. (1995)., Simone Weil (1909–1943), in , Contemporary women philosophers, 1900-today, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 287-297.
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