Written work
On the Abolition of All Political Parties
Note sur la suppression générale des partis politiques
It argues that parties are machines for manufacturing collective passion, which press upon the thought of their members and whose only real aim is their own growth. It proposes abolishing them and having candidates stand on their own ideas. Its brevity and radicalism have made it one of her most frequently reprinted texts.
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Authorship note
Written in London in 1943 (Wikisource dates it to 1940); published in La Table ronde (no. 26, February 1950) and in Écrits de Londres (1957).
Editions and translations
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English
Simone Weil
On the Abolition of All Political Parties
The Conscious LibraryOn the Abolition of All Political Parties
New York Review Books, 2014
Translation: Simon Leys
ISBN 9781590177815
Español
Nota sobre la supresión general de los partidos políticos
José J. de Olañeta, 2022
ISBN 9788497163873
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- 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
- Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations · 1943
- Project for a Formation of Front-Line Nurses · 1940
- 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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