Simone Weil on Work, Oppression, and Emancipation

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This book makes a powerful case for returning to Simone Weil to reflect on the philosophy of work today. In the age of the Anthropocene, of AI, of automation, and of the crisis of meaning, this volume argues that we must think of work as something that is much more than an economic activity done for a wage.  The problem of work, this volume argues, is thoroughly political. The book examines the meaning and organization of labour and the forms of oppression and suffering it can entail, from 1930s factories to the jobs of our contemporary world.  It also explores the modes of attention and emancipation that are possible at work. Placing Weil in conversation with other thinkers (e.g. Marx, Fanon, Tronti, Bataille, Graeber), contributors analyze the challenges and possibilities of transforming work into a dignified activity.

Pascale Devette is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal. She is the co-author of Devenir inutile: Pour une philosophie politique de la démission (2025) and has published extensively on Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt. 

Sophie Bourgault is Professor of political theory at the University of Ottawa. Former president of the American Weil Society, she is the co-editor of Simone Weil, Beyond Ideology? (2020), as well as eight other volumes on feminist ethics and care work.

Milan Bernard is a political theorist and a post-doctoral fellow at the Université de Caen-Normandie. He is a specialist of the thought of Hannah Arendt and of 20th century political thought. 

This book makes a powerful case for returning to Simone Weil to reflect on the philosophy of work today. In the age of the Anthropocene, of AI, of automation, and of the crisis of meaning, this volume argues that we must think of work as something that is much more than an economic activity done for a wage.  The problem of work, this volume argues, is thoroughly political. The book examines the meaning and organization of labour and the forms of oppression and suffering it can entail, from 1930s factories to the  jobs of our contemporary world.  It also explores the modes of attention and emancipation that are possible at work. Placing Weil in conversation with other thinkers (e.g. Marx, Fanon, Tronti, Bataille, Graeber), contributors analyze the challenges and possibilities of transforming work into a dignified activity.

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