The Saint & the Hero: Iris Murdoch & Simone Weil
Sofia de Melo Araujo & Fatima Vieira, eds., Iris Murdoch: Philosopher Meets Novelist (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 103-116.
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Decreation, Art, and a Passage of Diasporic Soul: Reading Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Pomegranate Offering with Simone Weil
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion, vol. 1, no. 9, pp. 1-24
The shock philosopher
The New Criterion
“The ‘War’ of Error: Violent Metaphor and Words with Capital Letters”
in Rozelle-Stone, A. Rebecca & Stone, Lucian, eds., The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later, New York: Continuum, pp. 139-158
“The Relevance of Simone Weil (1909-1943): 100 Years Later, in Rozelle-Stone”
A. Rebecca & Stone Lucian, eds., The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later, New York: Continuum, pp. xvii-xx
“Simone Weil and Modern Disequilibrium”
in Rozelle-Stone, A. Rebecca & Stone, Lucian, eds., The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later, New York: Continuum, pp. 3-17
“Beholding and Being beheld: Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch, and the Ethics of Attention”
The Humanistic Psychologist, 43(2), 160–172
Miracles and Supernatural Physics: Simone Weil on the Relationship of Science and Religion
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Given the proliferation in the last several years of publications concerning the relationship of science and religion, it is hard to imagine that Simone Weil, writing sixty years ago, would have much to contribute to this important discussion. It is my aim in this essay to argue that Weil’s frequently expressed thoughts on the relationship between science and faith are not only important, but they also provide a timely contribution to the current debate by describing a metaphysical framework for the discussion entirely different than those generally preferred by current participants in the dialogue.
Writing during the last few months of her life, in the midst of World War II, Weil writes that “the modern conception of science is responsible, as is that of history and that of art, for the monstrous conditions under which we live, and will, in its turn, have to be transformed, before we can hope to see the dawn of a better civilization.” In our contemporary world science and religion have become almost entirely disconnected, producing not only a vacuum where values once existed but also an intense psychological and intellectual distress.
The absolute incompatibility between the spirit of religion and that of science . . . leaves the soul in a permanent state of secret, unacknowledged uneasiness. . . . The most fervent Christians express every hour of their lives judgments, opinions, which, unknown to them, are based on standards which go contrary to the spirit of Christianity. But the most disastrous consequence of this uneasiness is to make it impossible for the virtue of intellectual probity to be exercised to the fullest extent . . . The modern phenomenon of irreligion among the population can be explained almost entirely by the incompatibility between science and religion.
In Weil’s estimation, the response to many contemporary crises must be rooted in a reawakened understanding of the necessary connection between true science and religion. “The remedy is to bring back again among us the spirit of truth, and to start within religion and science; which implies that the two of them should become reconciled.”
Essay in Rozelle-Stone, A. Rebecca & Stone, Lucian, eds., The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later, New York: Continuum, pp.107-122
Simone Weil’s Social Philosophy: Toward a Post-Colonial Ethic
in Pamela Sue Anderson, ed., New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion, Oxford, UK: Springer, pp. 69-84
“Simone Weil’s Analysis of Modern Science as the Basis of her Critique of the Technological Society”
in Rozelle-Stone, A. Rebecca & Stone, Lucian, eds., The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later, New York: Continuum, pp. 123-138
