“Who is the Spectator? Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on Thinking and Judging”
in J. J. Hermsen, ed., The Judge and the Spectator: Hannah Arendt on Thought and Action (Leuven: Peeters)
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Andre Weil, Who Reshaped Mathematics, Is Dead at 92
New York Times, (obit.)
Waiting for God: A Hasidic View
Comparative Civilizations Review, vol. 38, no. 38, pp. 12-36
Nationhood and Roots: Dostoyevsky and Weil on National Culture and Europe
Religion, State & Society, vol. 26, nos 3-4, pp. 279-289
A Radical Cure: Hannah Arendt & Simone Weil on The Need for Roots
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Simone Weil, writing at the height of World War II in some of the darkest hours of the struggle against fascism, arrived at a similar conclusion in her oft-neglected but magnificent book, The Need for Roots (1943). The book was about the reconstruction of France and, by implication, all of Western civilization. In it she wrote that: “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” (p.41)
Weil’s method for rerooting humanity is to identify fundamental human needs and devise ways of fulfilling each of them, detailing necessary social reforms. Arendt defined rootedness as having a “place in the world, recognized and guaranteed by others” (Origins, p.475). Weil defines rootedness similarly, albeit in more depth, saying that it is “real, active, and natural participation in the life of a community which preserves in living shape certain particular treasures of the past and certain particular expectations for the future” (The Need for Roots, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1952 edition, p.41).
Religion, State & Society, vol. 26, nos 3-4, pp. 279-289.
“Knowing Totality and Politics in Simone Weil and Albert Camus”
Southeastern Political Review, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 593-610
“Gravity” in the Thought of Simone Weil
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 57, No. 1, Mar., 1997, pp. 73-93
“The Self-Hatred of Simone Weil”
in No Passions Spent: Essays 1978-1995, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp.171-179
“The Tragic Poetics of Simone Weil,”
in Dunaway, John M. & Springsted, Eric. O., The Beauty that Saves: Essays on Aesthetics and Language in Simone Weil, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, pp. 109-121
“The Character of Don Giovanni in Mozart’s Opera”
in Dunaway, John M. & Springsted, Eric. O., The Beauty that Saves: Essays on Aesthetics and Language in Simone Weil, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, pp. 193-183
