Simone Weil. dinamiche dell'inganno nel soggetto della modernità

[Machine translation] The theme of deception is investigated as a fundamental key to modern subjectivity in the writings of Simone Weil, with particular reference to the work Reflections on the Causes of Freedom and Social Oppression (1934). A great deception is at the origin of the force exercised by the modern subject: a purely illusory force entrusted to human will, which also produces the actual reality of oppression that overwhelms men. The analysis proceeds to identify the dynamics and the engine of the self-deception mechanism. This allows us to understand how every attempt to get rid of it — as in the emancipatory process of the modern subject — produces new forms of deception. To get out of it, man must approach reality, guided by nature's model of necessity, illuminated by Good, becoming close to his neighbor.