“Decreation, or Saying Yes,”
Epoché: The University of California Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 59-85.
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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
Prerequisite to Dignity of Labour
Reproduced in online version (free) of Siân Miles, ed., Simone Weil: An Anthology (Penguin), pp. 264-276.
Weaving the World: Simone Weil on Science, Mathematics, and Love
Weaving the World uses Simone Weil’s philosophy of science and mathematics as an introduction to the thought of one of the most powerful philosophical and theological minds of the twentieth century. Weil held that, for the ancient Greeks, the ultimate purpose of science and mathematics was the knowledge and love of the divine. Her creative assimilation of this vision led her to a conception of science and mathematics that connects the human person with not only the physical world but also the spiritual and aesthetic aspects of human existence. Vance G. Morgan investigates Weil’s earliest texts on science, in which she lays the foundation for a conception of science rooted in basic human concerns and activities. He then tracks Weil’s analysis of the development of science, particularly of the mathematics and science of the ancient Greeks.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005
Selections from Gravity & Grace
The Self, The Great Beast, The Mysticism of Work, Void and Compensation, Attention and Will, Contradiction, Detachment, Friendship, Love, Chance; reproduced in free, online version of Siân Miles, ed., Simone Weil: An Anthology (Penguin, 2005).
Simone Weil on Labor: Her Insights Applied to Current Sweatshop Labor
Center for Global Justice
Beyond the Personal: Weil’s Critique of Maritain
Harvard Theological Review, vol. 98, no.2, pp. 209-218
Eight Women Philosophers Theory, Politics, and Feminism
Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press, pp. 194-221
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
Analysis of Oppression
Reproduced in online version (free) of Siân Miles, ed., Simone Weil: An Anthology (Penguin), pp. 147-177.
