The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Recommended
Eight Women Philosophers Theory, Politics, and Feminism
Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press, pp. 194-221
Sylvere Lotringer talks about Simone Weil
Clip from the documentary written, directed & produced by Julia Haslett
Video Interview: Eric O. Springsted
Join Resistance Recovery founder Piers Kaniuka and author and scholar Eric O. Springsted as they discuss his new book Simone Weil for the 21st Century. Recorded on July 14, 2021. Eric O. Springsted is a long time scholar of the thought of Simone Weil. He is the co-founder of the American Weil Society and served as its president for thirty-three years. After a career as a teacher, scholar, and pastor, he is retired and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author and editor of over a dozen previous books.
Resistance Recovery, July 23, 2021
Related: “A Q&A Interview with Eric Springsted,” Attention.
The Death of Simone Weil (jazz perf.)
Simone Weil was a Jew obsessed with Christian and Buddhist worldviews, a mystic who claimed to have visions of a realm beyond reality, and a reclusive philosopher who starved herself to death in 1941.
With music by Darrell Katz and text by Paula Tatarunis, “The Death of Simone Weil” deals with wild imagination, German occupation, desire, fishing, and the Pope. Weil’s story unfolds like a surreal jazz improvisation that seamlessly mixes modern composition and the entire jazz legacy into a mature and personal style.
The alto voice of Rebecca Shrimpton effortlessly captures the subtle shadings of the starkly beautiful text. Boston’s powerfully virtuosic Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra accompanies with fistfuls of fire.
“The Death of Simone Weil” stands out in the jazz vocal tradition in terms of both scale and ambition, and whose depth and economy of expression are worthy of the subject. All in all, it’s an exciting soirée with the far-out, the insane, and the beautifully strange.
Simone Weil: Lectures on Philosophy
Cambridge University Press, intro by Peter Winch, trans. Hugh Price
‘He had come for me by mistake’: The dramatic and fascinating story of Simone Weil
From acdemia.edu, Sunday Examiner, 2017.
“Simone Weil and the Identity of France”
Journal of European Studies, vol. 6, no. 22, pp. 125-143
“Guest Marie Meaney on Simone Weil, Jewish Philosopher”
‘Negative Faith: The Moment of God’s Absence’: Simone Weil on Affliction
This thesis focuses on Simone Weil’s philosophical, ethical, and religious perspectives on affliction by clarifying the essential difference between what is necessary and what is good. According to Weil, reality is governed by blind physical and moral necessities. She claims that we experience necessity as constraint and constraint as suffering. But affliction, she claims, is something essentially different; it is not reducible to mere suffering. I will argue that Weil’s conception of affliction can be best understood as a momentarily ‘numinous experience’ of God’s absence or the feeling of the absolute good. Numinous experience, according to Rudolf Otto, is a kind of experience that contains a quite specific moment and which remains ineffable. What is ineffable can only be felt. That is, Weil’s investigation of affliction concentrates on the feeling response to the absence or silence of God, the feeling which remains where language fails.
A thesis submitted to Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Theology and Religious Studies, July 2014
