Action and Contemplation: A Commentary on Vance Morgan’s Weaving the World: Simone Weil on Science, Mathematics, and Love
American Weil Society’s 2024 Colloquy: “The Politics and Ethics of Labor”
Unfinished: On Venice Saved – a Q&A with Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Philip Wilson
Weil Scholars
A linked listing of noted Weil scholars in the United States and elsewhere.
Thinking about Thinking
70 Years Later – Still Waiting for God: A Few Thoughts on a New Edition of a Weil Classic
Cahiers du Sud
Poetry As Decreation: Impersonality and Grace in T.S. Eliot and Simone Weil
This thesis posits that however separated T.S. Eliot and Simone Weil are by circumstance, political affinity, and Church affiliation, their thoughts intersect at a crucial point. While Weil’s theory of decreation and Eliot’s notion of impersonality are often cast as theological and poetic innovations, they both hearken back to the Christian mystical tradition – specifically, the aspect of via negativa. Placed alongside one another, Weil’s poetic mysticism and Eliot’s concern for the spiritual reveal the capacity of poems to decreate and bring the reader to a moment of void that awaits the fulfillment of grace. This thesis will study these topics with express consideration of Eliot’s Four Quartets and Weil’s notebooks, especially Gravity and Grace.
Honor’s Thesis, Department of English, Stanford University, May 2019.