Ep. 225: Simone Weil on War and Oppression (Part One)

from The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · host Mark Linsenmayer

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. The post Ep. 225: Simone Weil on War and Oppression (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.

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