Il bisogno più misconosciuto dell'anima umana. Il doppio movimento dell’Enracinement in Simone Weil

During the twentieth century, many intellectuals analyzed the philosophical theme of rootedness. Among the most complete formulations, L’enracinement by the French philosopher Simone Weil appears as a concrete and reasoned response to the feeling of emptiness derived from the world wars, the affirmation of totalitarianism, the personal experience of exile. Far from any nationalistic or reactionary interpretation of rootedness, Simone Weil underlined the urgency of an existential and cultural bond with European origins, opposing a return to the inspiration – coming from ancient Greece – that made Europe united, to the cultural, historical, and political disintegration occurred in the Forties.