Christy Wampole

Associate Professor of French, Princeton University

Christy Wampole is an essayist and professor at Princeton University. She is the author of Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor (2016) and Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in 21st-Century France (2020).

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Written by Christy Wampole

Singer in a sparkling dress performing on stage with dancers, all under dynamic lights and in front of glittering stairs.

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Beauty and aesthetics

Can culture degenerate?

Tempting it might be, but the idea that culture has become vacuous and banal comes with unsavoury implications

Christy Wampole

Black-and-white photo of a young woman who is Simone Weil with short hair facing the camera, half of her face in shadow.

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Thinkers and theories

Strange and intelligent

Estranged but not alienated, devout but not obedient, philosophical but not a systematiser, Simone Weil defies conventions

Christy Wampole