The Subversive Simone WeilKnown as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil (190943) was one of the twentieth centurys most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught philosophy to lyce students and organized union workers, fought alongside anarchists during the Spanish Civil War and labored alongside workers on assembly lines, joined the Free French movement in London