S1E4 – Simone Weil, "The Iliad or the Poem of Force

Overmorrow’s Library
02/12/2020 25 min Episodio 4
S1E4 – Simone Weil, "The Iliad or the Poem of Force

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Federico Campagna presents Simone Weil’s 1939 essay "The Iliad or the Poem of Force" in the context of her mystical existentialist philosophy. Image credits: Virgilius Solis, The Suicide of Ajax , 1563. 

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