Simone Weil was a French philosopher, teacher and political activist whose works had particular influence on French and English social thought. Simone Weil came from an educated, Jewish but agnostic family. Intellectually precocious, she also displayed an awareness for social matters at an early age. After studying mathematics and philosophy, she became a teacher, her chief employment during her life. Weil was a supporter of revolutionary socialism and committed herself to the fight for worker’s rights.

Within the New Voices network, several members engage with Simone Weil’s thought from diverse philosophical perspectives:

• Annabelle Bonnet – Associate researcher at CESPRA, EHESS-CNRS, Paris
  Research: Feminist thought, sociology of intellectuals, women philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries
• Silvia Conti – PhD Student, LUMSA University (Rome)
  Research: Iris Murdoch, moral philosophy, contemporary philosophy, feminism
• Małgorzata Hołda – University of Łódź, Poland
  Research: Phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, modernism, postmodernism
• Marina Lademacher – University of Sussex
  Research: Social and political thought
• Megan Jane Laverty – Teachers College, Columbia University
  Research: Moral philosophy, philosophy of education, pre-college philosophy education
• Piergiacomo Severini – Università G. d’Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, Italy
  Research: Jeanne Hersch, existentialism, contemporary women philosophers

Interested? If you would like to connect with the New Voices community and engage in international research and networking on women in the history of philosophy, you can find more information here:
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/projects/new-voices-on-women-in-the-history-of-philosophy/