Re: Simone Weil, _The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties
> Towards Mankind_
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=1563
A Genius of the Spiritual Life By Alfred Kazin
In breaking away from Partisan Review to found his own journal, Politics, Dwight Macdonald did something altogether splendid and moving, in getting to clear new moral ground, away from Leninism, Trotskyism, the usual hates and polemics of the left. I owe to Politics my discovery of Simone Weil, whose essay "The Iliad: Poem of Force" astonished and moved me at the end of 1945 by removing the stage heroics of the Trojan War and presenting the true horror of war, death by death by death, as the submission to merciless impersonal force that was the fate of innocent millions during Hitler's war: <SNIP>
*Simone Weil, interpretations of a life / edited by George Abbott White PUBLISHER: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. ... Contains an essay on Weil by Staughton Lynd.
Marxologist David McLellan on Weil, UTOPIAN PESSIMIST: The Life & Thought of Simone Weil, NY: Poseidon, (1990) -- Michael Pugliese American imperialism has been made plausible and attractive in part by the insistence that it is not imperialistic. Harold Innis, 1948 http://www.monthlyreview.org/sr2004.htm