Simone Weil
Let Us Not Start the Trojan War Again
Written work
Let Us Not Start the Trojan War Again
Ne recommençons pas la guerre de Troie
It analyses how capitalised words —nation, security, capitalism, fascism— serve as phantoms for which people kill and die, as Helen did for Greeks and Trojans. It is her best-known pacifist text, predating her abandonment of pacifism in 1939.
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Authorship note
Article published in her lifetime in Nouveaux Cahiers (April 1937); collected in Écrits historiques et politiques.
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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
- 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
- Venice Saved · 1955
- Poems · 1968
- Correspondence · 1982
- Complete Works · 1988
Sources
- Rozelle-Stone, A. Rebecca, y Benjamin P. Davis. «Simone Weil». Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, publicado el 10 de marzo de 2018, revisión sustantiva del 18 de septiembre de 2025.
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