Simone Weil: a Political Philosophy Emerged from the Radical Commitment of Not Lying to Oneself

The Filosofia i Gènere—ADHUC Seminar holds the 26th Thesis Laboratory. In this new session, PhD candidate Pau Matheu Ribera (Seminari Filosofia i Gènere—ADHUC, University of Barcelona) will present the research he is carrying out for his thesis project Simone Weil: a Political Philosophy Emerged from the Radical Commitment of Not Lying to Oneself, under Dr. Rosa Rius Gatell's supervision. In this project, Matheu Ribera analyzes Simone Weil's political thought in order to demonstrate that it is a dynamic thought, in constant transformation, that emerges from philosophy's desire to effectively intervene in reality. This desire for intervention is precisely what forced her to constantly revise her political conceptions, contrasting them with the results from a close analysis of the social and political events of her time. Matheu Ribera follows these transformations in an attempt to find the main features of a political thought that escapes prefabricated solutions and abstractions in order to "morder la tierra" ( bite the earth).