Simone Weil: Intellectual Mischief-Maker
Venice Saved | Simone Weil | Bloomsbury Academic
By Tim McIntosh
In 1933 Simone Weil arranged for Leon Trotsky, the Soviet revolutionary, to visit her parents’ apartment in Paris so she could debate him on the merits of the Communist revolution. Trotsky was a fiery debater—most college professors would have been reluctant to oppose him. But not the twenty-three-year-old Weil. She was precocious, fearle…