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Ep. 225: Simone Weil on War and Oppression (Part One)
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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.
Don't wait for part two; get the full, ad-free Citizen Edition now. Please support PEL!
1194 episodes
Manage episode 241693650 series 2150645
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.
Don't wait for part two; get the full, ad-free Citizen Edition now. Please support PEL!
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