American Weil Society’s call for papers for 2023 colloquy

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Forthcoming: New Translation and Companion to TNFR

The following book is set to be released around the same time as the forthcoming new translation of The Need for Roots (Penguin, trans. by Ros Schwartz, intro. by Kate Kirkpatrick, 2023): 

• A Declaration of Duties toward Humankind: A Critical Companion to 

Simone Weil’s The Need for Roots (Carolina Academic Press, 2023)

edited by Eric O. Springsted & Ronald K.L. Collins

Table of Contents 

About the Cover

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1 Simone Weil on Rights and Obligations — Mario von der Ruhr

Chapter 2 The Needs of the Soul as a Basis for a New Civilization — Emmanuel Gabellieri

Chapter 3 Politics, Joy, and the Needs of the Soul — Julie Daigle

Chapter 4 The Need for Roots — Lissa McCullough

Chapter 5 The Problem of Uprootedness and the Degradation of Human Justice  — Lawrence Schmidt      

Chapter 6 On Method: Education and Inspiration — Robert Chenavier

Chapter 7 What is Greatness? On Reading the Past — Ronald K.L. Collins 

Chapter 8 The Spirit of Truth: Science and Providence — Eric O. Springsted

Chapter 9 Work as the Spiritual Basis of Culture — Simone Kotva                                                                                     

Appendix 1 Study for a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being — Simone Weil

Appendix 2 The Legal and Moral Foundations of the Resistance — André Philip

Contributors

Bibliography

Index

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