Ep. 225: Simone Weil on War and Oppression (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Mark Linsenmayer
September 9, 201947m 16s
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Show Notes
On Simone Weil's essays "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force" (1939) and "Analysis of Oppression" (1934).
How do circumstances oppress and dehumanize us? Weil describes the mechanisms that keep people at war and maintain oppression even through revolutions as inherent to the logic of power. With guest Corey Mohler.