Commentary on The Iliad or Poem of Force (part 2)
— Part 1 here
Dr. Andy Amato is an Associate Professor of Instruction – Philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas
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SIMONE WEIL – La vie au risque de la vérité (SIMONE WEIL – Life at the risk of the truth)
A documentary written and directed by Catherine Deneuve. (in French)
Produced by Grand Lange and KTO / Good projection
Reading Simone Weil in East London – Dr Anna Rowlands
This presentation draws on empirical research conducted with Jesuit Refugee Service in London. It is grounded in the experience of refugees living in destitution in the UK asylum process into dialogue with the work of Simone Weil. These experiences are connected to work which began in dialogue with St Augustine and Hannah Arendt on time and temporality in the context of refugee experiences.
Our seminar programme offers students, scholars, and interested visitors an opportunity to learn more about aspects of Christian history and contemporary Christianity. The seminars are held in conjunction with the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge University.
Find out more at www.cccw.cam.ac.uk.
Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide Webinar – 9th December 2021
Advent Evening of Reflection: Invitation from Simone Weil Catholic Worker
We are a domestic community at the intersection of a Catholic Worker house of hospitality to those in housing need, and a public household serving as node for neighborhood-based social, economic, and intellectual life. As our supporting non-profit, In My Backyard (IMBY), we invite neighbors and friends to support this work and support other nodes of these commitments.
The Catholic Worker
Our Christian commitment is reflected in our character as a Catholic Worker community of hospitality, offering:
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Supported, community-house living in our 2-house community (made up of the Simone Weil House and the Dorothy Day House, both on NE 15th), usually for folks who were camping in the orbit of St Francis Dining Hall or who come to us as an international refugee; and
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Weekly open-invitation meals and “open house” days, welcoming both friends neighbors wanting community, and friends and neighbors in need of respite, food, shower, and laundry facility. Recently, we also began hosting a PDX Free Fridge, which facilitates the sharing of food and other resources among folks in our neighborhood.
— For more information about the Simone Weil House, go here.
— See here for a related story.
What Becomes of Agency in a More-Than-Human World?
This session explores alternative accounts of agency in stories that borrow their warp from dependency rather than autonomy and their weft from receptivity and passivity rather than effort and power-over. It is from this perspective that we greet the promise — but also the problem — of mysticism and new materialism. We think with those practices through which feelings of self-sufficiency are abandoned and what is experienced is a state of openness to the more-than-human: spiritual and divine, but also animal, vegetable, and mineral.
Hosted by Simone Weil denkkollektiv {by invitation only}
Jane Bennett is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities at Johns Hopkins University
Simone Kotva is on the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.
“Feeding on the Light”
Undermain Theatre, Dallas
Simone Weil: Writing for a General Intellectual Audience
In this video, Professor Toril Moi explains the internal editorial process related to her London Review of Books review of Robert Zaretsky’s The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas (2021). Among several other things, her lecture addressed how her review was framed and how its length had to be shortened — a point directly related to a substantive objection raised in a letter-to-the-editor by Professor Zaretsky.
Inside Issue 2: New and Forthcoming
Video Interview: Eric O. Springsted
Join Resistance Recovery founder Piers Kaniuka and author and scholar Eric O. Springsted as they discuss his new book Simone Weil for the 21st Century. Recorded on July 14, 2021. Eric O. Springsted is a long time scholar of the thought of Simone Weil. He is the co-founder of the American Weil Society and served as its president for thirty-three years. After a career as a teacher, scholar, and pastor, he is retired and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author and editor of over a dozen previous books.
Resistance Recovery, July 23, 2021
Related: “A Q&A Interview with Eric Springsted,” Attention.
The Living Philosophy of Simone Weil
Albert Camus called the philosopher Simone Weil “the only great spirit of our times.” T.S. Eliot said she was the greatest saint of the 20th century. Charles de Gaulle said she was insane. But who is she and what is the Simone Weil philosophy? Despite dying at the age of 34, Simone Weil lived a life that rivaled any philosopher. And it was the authentic life of a philosopher following her inner compass. She did not fall in with the intellectual milieu of her time by becoming a public intellectual (which was far from a matter of intelligence — she finished 1st in her class for philosophy at France’s elite university the École Normale Supérieure beating out Simone de Beauvoir in second place). She was born into a Jewish family and raised agnostic and yet found herself drawn towards religion; she fought in the Spanish Civil War and worked in factories for a year to understand the working class.
The Living Philosophy (YouTube), June 20, 2021
