“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)
Keywords
Simone Weil: Songs of Hunger and Love
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
Simone Weil on Greece’s Desire for the Ultimate Bridge to God: The Passion
Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 352-367
“God and Concept-formation in Simone Weil”
in Richard H. Bell, ed., Simone Weil’s Philosophy of Culture: Readings Toward Divine Humanity, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 77-92, also in in Phillips, Recovering Religious Concepts: Closing Epistemic Divides,London: Palgrave, pp. 211-226
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
Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-Denial
Ruth Hein, trans., Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press
Nationhood and Roots: Dostoyevsky and Weil on National Culture and Europe
Religion, State & Society, vol. 26, nos 3-4, pp. 279-289
Simone Weil: Writings Selected
Introduction by Eric O. Springsted, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books
A Radical Cure: Hannah Arendt & Simone Weil on The Need for Roots
Excerpt:
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.
