Simone Weil
Project for a Formation of Front-Line Nurses
Written work
Project for a Formation of Front-Line Nurses
Projet d'une formation d'infirmières de première ligne
It proposes sending a small group of women volunteers to the front to care for the wounded under fire, as a symbol of disinterested courage against the heroism of force embodied by the SS. The Free French authorities rejected it.
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Authorship note
Project drafted in 1940 and repeatedly submitted in New York and London; published in Écrits de Londres (1957).
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Simone Weil
Écrits de Londres et dernières lettres
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Other works by Simone Weil
- Gravity and Grace · 1947
- The Need for Roots · 1949
- Waiting for God · 1950
- Notebooks · 1951
- First and Last Notebooks (Supernatural Knowledge) · 1950
- Reflections concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression · 1934
- Oppression and Liberty · 1955
- The Worker's Condition (La Condition ouvrière) · 1951
- Factory Journal · 1935
- The Iliad, or the Poem of Force · 1940
- The Greek Source · 1953
- Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks · 1951
- Letter to a Priest · 1951
- London Writings and Last Letters · 1957
- Human Personality (The Person and the Sacred) · 1943
- On the Abolition of All Political Parties · 1943
- Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations · 1943
- Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God · 1942
- The Love of God and Affliction · 1942
- Forms of the Implicit Love of God · 1942
- Spiritual Autobiography · 1942
- Unordered Thoughts on the Love of God · 1962
- Lectures on Philosophy · 1959
- Science and Perception in Descartes · 1930
- On Science · 1966
- Historical and Political Writings · 1960
- Letter to Georges Bernanos · 1938
- Let Us Not Start the Trojan War Again · 1937
- Venice Saved · 1955
- Poems · 1968
- Correspondence · 1982
- Complete Works · 1988
Sources
- Weil, Simone. Écrits de Londres et dernières lettres. Paris: Gallimard (col. «Espoir»), 1957. Texto en Wikisource.
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