On the Abolition of All Political Parties
Weil, Simone
NYRB, 2013. Original title Note sur la suppression générale des partis politiques. Like new.
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This essay was written in 1943, shortly before Weil's death, but not widely published until 1957. In this radical and challenging work, she argues forcefully for the abolition of political parties, viewing them as inherently corrupting forces that undermine truth, justice, and genuine public discourse.
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Simone Weil
An enigmatic French philosopher, mystic, and political activist whose brief life was marked by an intense engagement with human suffering and the pursuit of truth. Renouncing a comfortable academic career, she worked in factories, volunteered in the Spanish Civil War, and refused sufficient food during wartime to share in the privations of others, embodying her deep commitment to solidarity with the oppressed. Her posthumously published writings, characterised by their intellectual rigor and spiritual intensity, explore themes of attention, affliction, justice, labor, the nature of evil, and a radical critique of power and political parties, leaving behind a unique and challenging body of thought that continues to influence philosophy, theology, and political theory.
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