Written work
Reflections concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression
Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l'oppression sociale
It examines why oppression survives every revolution: power feeds on the race for power, and modern technology subordinates the worker's thought to the machine. Against Marxist optimism, it proposes as an ideal a society in which work is methodical and conscious action. It anticipates her criticism of Soviet bureaucracy and Taylorism.
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Authorship note
Essay completed in 1934, before the factory year; Weil called it her 'great work'. Unpublished in her lifetime, it appeared in Oppression et Liberté (Gallimard, 1955).
Editions and translations
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English
Oppression and Liberty
Routledge, 2001
Translation: Arthur Wills y John Petrie
ISBN 9780415254076
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Español
Reflexiones sobre las causas de la libertad y de la opresión social
Paidós, 1995
ISBN 9788449301186
Reflexiones sobre las causas de la libertad y de la opresión social
Trotta, 2015
ISBN 9788498795660
Français
Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l'oppression sociale
Gallimard (Folio Essais), 1998
ISBN 9782070404421
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
- 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
- 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. Oppression et Liberté. Paris: Gallimard (col. «Espoir»), 1955 (incluye las Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l'oppression sociale, 1934). Texto en Wikisource.
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