Quelques réflexions sur les origines de l'hitlérisme

Écrit par Simone Weil

Raconté par Grégoire Orowitz

La montée du nazisme et les horreurs du régime véhiculé par Adolf Hitler avaient-ils des antécédents dans l'histoire ? De qui s'est-il inspiré ? Dans quelle mesure, par exemple, la Rome antique fut-elle un modèle pour le Führer ? Simone Weil soumet plusieurs pistes de réflexions qui visent à percevoir ici un ensemble de mécanismes dont elle souligne les enchevêtrements, la complexité, mettant in fine à jour les racines de la folie hitlérienne.

Son exposé se compose de trois grandes parties : Permanence et changements des caractères nationaux ; Hitler et la politique extérieure de la Rome antique ; Hitler et le régime intérieur de l'empire romain.

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: DP
• Date de sortie: 15 avr. 2019
• ISBN: 9781987168808

Simone Weil

Simone Adolphine Weil (1909-1943) was a French philosopher, mystic and political activist. After her graduation from formal education, Weil became a teacher and taught intermittently throughout the 1930s, taking several breaks because of poor health and in order to devote herself to political activism. Such work saw her assisting in the trade union movement, taking the side of the anarchists known as the Durruti Column in the Spanish Civil War, and spending more than a year working as a labourer, mostly in car factories, so that she could better understand the working class. Weil became increasingly religious and inclined towards mysticism as her life progressed. She wrote throughout her life, although most of her writings did not attract much attention until after her death. In the 1950s and 1960s, her work became famous in continental Europe and throughout the English-speaking world. Her thought has continued to be the subject of extensive scholarship across a wide range of fields.