leer en español         Simone Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political thinker known for her radical writings on attention, suffering, and spiritual reality. In 1936, she went to Spain at the outbreak of the Civil War and joined the anarchist Durruti Column in the fight against Franco. She became famous for her ascetic life, factory work alongside labourers, and essays collected in works such as Gravity and Grace and The Need for Roots. Everyone should want to be Simone Weil – not because she offers comfort, but because sh...