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21/10/2009

Simone Weil celebration.

On Saturday August 29, Grahame Davies took part with Whitbread Award-winning poet Michael Symmons Roberts in a joint event at the Greenbelt festival at Cheltenham to celebrate the centenary of the French philosopher and political activist Simone Weil.

Simone Weil, born to a secular Jewish family in France 100 years ago, is one of the most provocative, original and enigmatic political and religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In her brief life - she died in 1943 - she sought to combine a tireless, lifelong commitment to social justice with a growing Christian mysticism. In this session, Roberts and Davies explored the legacy of a figure whose challenge to materialism and oppression of every kind is as sharp today as ever. Further details about the session are here.