Abstract

This short article attempts to track the path from Society’s original status to contemporary and oppressive Society. The relationship between man and nature may be the cause of today’s oppressive social structure, clearly gender-based. In the works of French philosopher Simone Weil, we find a serious descriptive analysis of the mechanisms which have gradually led Western society to become violent, discriminatory and completely focused on the cult of destruction, as we are seeing right now. Could feminism turn this depressing picture around? Could we have a different approach to the subject of law in general? Italian activist Carla Lonzi tried to answer this question in 1970, by publishing the iconic philosophical essay “Spitting on Hegelµ. This short article takes into consideration both Weil’s and Lonzi’s thinking, trying to combine them in a new way