The two Simones (The work of Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir)

The work of Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir is compared along various li nes of analysis. Simone Weil's Gravity and Grace is examined, and her pench ant for the use of the concept of the void as point of departure for metaph ysical speculation, while Simone de Beauvoir's work Old Age is analyzed, wi th a view toward setting out her use of the Sartrean concept of project. A brief comparison of the work of Weil and Kierkegaard is made, and some refe rence is given to sections of Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex. It is conclu ded that, from a similar point of departure, the thinkers move in different directions.