This might be of interest to some FWers:
Monday, April 8 - Friday, April 12 9:00 - 10:00 pm EDT CBC Radio one ENLIGHTENED BY LOVE: THE THOUGHT OF SIMONE WEIL Simone Weil died in obscurity in London in 1943. She was just 34. Until then, her reputation had rested mainly on her involvement in left-wing politics in France during the 1930s. Then, after the war, she was discovered. In France, Albert Camus oversaw the posthumous publication of many of her writings. T.S. Eliot introduced her to English readers, with the claim that she possessed "a genius akin to sainthood." A lot of attention was focused on Weil's extreme personality and her extraordinary life. Now, scholars and readers are paying attention to the enduring significance of her political and religious thought. IDEAS producer David Cayley explores Weil's fusion of politics and mysticism as a philosophy for our time.
