Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil\'s short life was ample testimony to her beliefs.
She starved herself to death in protest against the Nazi occupation of France..
A political theorist and activist, a revolutionary and a philosopher and religious mystic.
About the Author: Simone Weil (1909-1943).
She could easily have been issuing a direct warning to us today, the citizens of Century 21.
Equally as important, however, is our duty Towards our community: we may have declared various human rights, but we have overlooked the obligations and this has left us self-righteous and rootless.
She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as human beings is to not let another suffer from hunger.
In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual.
Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war.
Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration.
She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle.
In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America.
Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil\'s short life was ample testimony to her beliefs
