Simone Weil e l'immaginario bio-pneumo-politico de L'Enracinement

Simone Weil and the bio-pneumo-politic imaginary of The Need for Roots. During the Forties, Simone Weil was charged by France Libre with the task of rethinking the foundations of French society after the war. Weil summarised the metaphysical cause of the european disaster in the image of Uprootedness, to which she opposed a renewed attention to the Need for Roots. This proposal has often been interpreted as a conservative one; while not completely correct, this characterisation of Weil’s last writings may be useful to highlight some ambiguities in a few of her specific suggestions. More specifically, in the Need for Roots, and in Weil’s project of a new, non-oppressed working class, we may identify some traits of a bio-political project (Foucault). Our aim is to identify in a precise manner the most problematic propositions in a work that remains even today a very illuminating reading, both from an ethical and from a political point of view. In this way we hope to shed light on some contradictions that are not specific to Weil’s work, but rather typical of a political climate that had its high moment after the end of World War II