Overmorrow’s Library

S1E4 – Simone Weil, "The Iliad or the Poem of Force

Episode Summary

Federico Campagna presents Simone Weil’s 1939 essay "The Iliad or the Poem of Force" in the context of her mystical existentialist philosophy.

Episode Notes

Federico Campagna presents Simone Weil’s 1939 essay "The Iliad or the Poem of Force" in the context of her mystical existentialist philosophy.

Image credits: Virgilius Solis, The Suicide of Ajax , 1563.