How’s that for a nickname? It’s what Simone Weil’s high school classmates called her (among other things). In French it’s l’impératif catégorique dans les jupes.
It has for some time now been the fashion to say that we are in a morass, and to attempt to get out of the morass by attacking Romanticism; and I am going to do this too.
[Iris Murdoch]
How’s that for a nickname? It’s what Simone Weil’s high school classmates called her (among other things). In French it’s l’impératif catégorique dans les jupes.