The Weil family
Common Knowledge, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 252-260
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Homer and Simone Weil: The Iliad sub specie violentiae
Simone Weil’s varied writings are chapters in an autobiography of the mind, best understood in light of the zeal with which she lived life and expressed her thoughts. Although only thirty years old in 1939/40 when she wrote “The Iliad, or The Poem of Force,” she had already confronted a wide range of fundamental issues on a philosophical plane and carried over that struggle into her personal life. The ardor she brought to her intellectual pursuits and to the particular causes to which she devoted her time and energies makes Weil an attractive subject for biographers, as the spate of works on her life and career in the last thirty years attests.
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James P. Holoka, Simone Weil’s The Iliad or the Poem of Force: A Critical Edition, Peter Lang Inc. (2006).
Horizons of Grace: Marilynne Robinson and Simone Weil
Philosophy and Literature, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 349-364
Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch: The Possibility of Dialogue
Gender Issues, vol. 22, no. 4 (Fall 2005), pp. 71-78
The Weil family
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (last updated September 2005), School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
“Decreation, or Saying Yes,”
Epoché: The University of California Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 59-85.
A 1940 Letter of André Weil [to Simone Weil] on Analogy in Mathematics
Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 52, no. 3, 334-341
Albert Camus, Simone Weil and the Absurd
According to Camus, it is only in the face of the absurd – and through our unremitting revolt against it – that meaning can be generated. Espousing the Christian faith abnegates the absurd and with it the only possible source of meaning for modem man. This critique can be addressed by engaging with Simone Weil. She develops an original dialectic of divine absence (in the laws of indifferent ’necessity’ and affliction) and presence, which reflects the intra-Trinitarian unity and distance of the divine Persons, and which finds ultimate expression on the Cross of Christ. For her this dialectic does not induce revolt but a sophisticated kind of reconciliation that involves a selfless openness to, and engagement with, this world.
Irish Theological Quarterly, vol. 70, pp. 343-354
Simone Weil on Labor: Her Insights Applied to Current Sweatshop Labor
Center for Global Justice
Eight Women Philosophers Theory, Politics, and Feminism
Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press, pp. 194-221
