Who Was Simone Weil?
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Simone Weil
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University.
Strange and Intelligent
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The experience and the idea of war in the writings of Simone Weil and Marguerite Duras
This article considers the works of Simone Weil and Marguerite Duras as witnesses and narrators of the events of the Second World War. Their two perspectives offer a first, original reflection by women intellectuals on war and violence based on direct involvement. Simone Weil construed her idea of ‘force’ from her first-hand experience of the Spanish Civil War and her participation in the French Resistance, in London. Marguerite Duras offered her personal testimony of war violence (in the French Resistance, in France) intertwining fiction and reality, wavering together autobiography and invention. Duras, in the contrary, tried to represent the unrepresentable by connecting her personal to a collective trauma.
European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire , vol. 25, no. 5 (2018), pp. 818-830
Weil Waiting: On the 75th Anniversary of Simone Weil’s Visit to New York
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Perspective of the Drowning: Alain Supiot on Simone Weil
A conversation with Alain Supiot, Verso, (August 19, 2017), from the print edition of l’Obs, David Broder, trans., (July 27 2017).
Against History: A Lesson from Simone Weil
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“At the heart of Weil’s argument against history resides a lesson she tried over and over again to teach those who would listen, a lesson we today need specially to heed. The lesson concerns the fundamental question of whether the meaning of the world, as one might put it, or its value, or its significance, can be found within it. That it can is the message of so-called humanism, a child of The Enlightenment, the view that the key to our destiny lies within us. Call that view immanentism, in contrast with transcendentalism, or if you prefer, the horizontal vs the vertical perspective, or, perhaps most perspicuously, naturalism vs. supernaturalism. On this question, one cannot avoid taking sides.”
iai News, July 18, 2017
Simone Weil: Reason, faith, and empathy
Excerpts: “What would Weil think of the world we inhabit today? . . . .”
“Whenever I read Weil’s words, I ask myself the same question. What would she think of the world we inhabit today? The fact that academic interest in her work has skyrocketed in recent years suggests that many people have the same question. What would she say about Brexit, a U.S. president elected on a platform of nativism and xenophobia, and the rise of far-right political parties across Europe? What would be her response to the five-year civil war in Syria and the ongoing reality of global terrorism? What would she say about environmental degradation and the mass extinction of species that human activity has caused? What would she make of artificial intelligence and the increased power that humans are choosing to give machines?”
US Catholic (May 31, 2017)
Jeannine M. Pitas is a writer, teacher, and Spanish-English literary translator currently living in Dubuque, Iowa, where she teaches English and Spanish at the University of Dubuque. She is also a regular contributor to the Catholic blog Vox Nova.
Suffering Divine Things: Simone Weil and Jewish Mysticism
in Spirituality and Global Ethics, Masaeli, Mahmoud, ed., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 9-26
‘He had come for me by mistake’: The dramatic and fascinating story of Simone Weil
From acdemia.edu, Sunday Examiner, 2017.
