Simone Weil and Self-Sacrifice: A Conversation with Liliana Calvani

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Year of Publication

2008

Author

Heijne, Mathilde

Book

If it is me, it's not me

Pages

12-13

Publisher

Hatje Cantz Verlag

Place Published

Ostifildern

Language

English

Keywords

anorexia
politics
social (societal)
work
Calvani, Liliana

Annotation

The Italian filmmaker Liliana Calvani is interviewed about her script for a film on Simone Weil. The interview focuses on Calvani’s reasons for wanting to make a film on Weil and the difficulties she encountered in her attempt to do so. It touches upon Weil’s factory work, her social and political activism, especially what Calvani sees as her modern approach to these, her anorexia and her continuing importance as an intellectual figure.