Escritos sobre el colonialismo

This edition brings together essays, articles, and previously unpublished fragments that Simone Weil (1909-1943) dedicated to reflecting on the colonial question from 1936 until the end of her life. A pioneering voice of anticolonialism, her thought goes beyond the critique of colonial domination (which she situates within the diagnosis of a policy based on a statist, imperialist, and Eurocentric vision) to imagine the future of a decolonized world and the role that Europe could play within a new, nonviolent global order. For Weil, justice becomes real in the hearts of those who cultivate it, and therefore, transforming a present plagued by war requires a common front of struggle and resistance nourished by values ​​that challenge the logic of domination, inviting the spread among peoples of a "madness" that is love for all that is struck by force. The current spectacle of a decolonized world, torn apart by new wars that reproduce old colonial logics, allows us to evaluate the scope of Weil's early analyses, as well as the validity of a critique of political theology that sustains them.