Force
The Pandemic of Force: A Weilian Review of Apollo’s Arrow
Weil’s Single-Minded Commitment to Truth: A Q & A Interview with J. P. Little
Confronting Colonialism through the Myth of Thanksgiving
An Interview with Lenora Champagne
The Lonely Death of Ashli Babbitt
Parachute Woman: Simone Weil’s Front-Line Nurses Proposal
Epoché, no. 37 (February 2021).
Cahiers du Sud
Horror Transfigured: Force Drama and World’s Beauty According to Simone Weil
This text, dedicated to the thought of Simone Weil, aims to show how misfortune and the experience of horror are the extreme consequence of an immoderate exercise of force, understood as one mode of the natural necessity. The purpose of Simone Weil’s reflections on human distress is to show that misfortune, by sharpening our faculty of attention, opens the way of its own excess.
Homer: The Very Idea
Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence. But his identity is shrouded in questions about who he was, when he lived, and whether he was an actual person, a myth, or merely a shared idea. Rather than attempting to solve the mystery of this character, James I. Porter explores the sources of Homer’s mystique and their impact since the first recorded mentions of Homer in ancient Greece.
Homer: The Very Idea considers Homer not as a man, but as a cultural invention nearly as distinctive and important as the poems attributed to him, following the cultural history of an idea and of the obsession that is reborn every time Homer is imagined. Offering novel readings of texts and objects, the book follows the very idea of Homer from his earliest mentions to his most recent imaginings in literature, criticism, philosophy, visual art, and classical archaeology.
University of Chicago Press, October 25, 2021
