A Secular Mysticism? Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch and the Idea of Attention
M. del Carmen Paredes, ed., Filosofía, arte y mística, Salamanca, Spain: Salamanca University Press (2017).
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A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil’s Life and Writings
Victoria, Canada: Friesen Press
Saint Simone — Simone Weil and Revolutionary Politics
Public Seminar
Simone Weil: Sketches for an Unwritten Biography
Forty-Five: A Journal of Outside Researchreviewed by Christopher Hamilton
“Saints, Scandals, and the Politics of Love: Simone Weil, Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini”
PhilPapers, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 16-32
Overlapping Consensus Thin and Thick: John Rawls and Simone Weil
John Rawls and Simone Weil presented two distinct conceptions of political justice, aimed at articulating a common ethos in an inherently heterogeneous society. The terms of the former, chiefly concerned with the distribution of primary goods, underwrite much of today’s Western democracy’s political liberalism. The terms of the latter, chiefly concerned with the way interaction is organized in social activities in view of the body and soul’s balancing pairs of needs, are less well known. We explain the sense in which the overlapping consensus in Weil’s notion of political justice is “thicker”, and may thus deserve more attention – alongside that of Rawls – for substantiating a democratic ethos within political liberalism.
Philosophical Investigations 39:4 October 2016, pp. 362-384
On the Abolition of Political Parties: Simone Weil and the Politics of Populism
Presented at The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, University of Montreal, Canada; Mark Devenney, University of Brighton, author and presenter.
God Isn’t Dead, He’s Silent’: Simone Weil Dies, Very Young
Jewish World
Interview with Benjamin Braude
The Boisi Center, no. 102
A Strange Christian: Simone Weil
This article appears in Katherine Davies & Toby Garfitt, eds., God’s Mirror: Renewal and Engagement in French Catholic Intellectual Culture in the Mid–Twentieth Century, New York: Fordham University Press (2015), pp. 69-87.
Florence de Lussy is the honorary general curator in the Manuscripts Department of the National Library of France and has devoted 27 years to editing The Complete Works of Simone Weil.
God’s Mirror presents perspectives on intellectual, cultural, and political questions faced by French and French-Canadian intellectuals who engaged with Catholicism in the period 1930-50, in the diverse but related fields of philosophy, theology, politics, literature, and music. Names include Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, Emmanuel Mounier, Paul Valéry, Simone Weil, and many others.
