Modern Women Mystics: Etty Hillesum and Simone Weil
New Blackfriars, vol. 76, no. 892, pp. 175-187
Spirituality
The Enigma of Affliction
in Diogenes Allen and Eric Springsted, Spirit, Nature, and Community: Issues in the Thought of Simone Weil, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1994, chapter 6, pp. 97-110.
The Religious Metaphysics of Simone Weil
Joan Dargan, trans., Albany, New York: State University of New York Press
Winch on Weil’s Supernaturalism
This book covers the main aspects of Simone Weil’s thought, drawing on her life where it is relevant for understanding her ideas. It is the fruit of many years engagement with scholars and scholarship on Weil in America, France, and the United Kingdom. The philosophical bases of her social and political thought, of her analysis of the natural world, and of her spiritual journey, as found in Plato, Epictetus, and Kant are uncovered.
The authors are especially concerned with controversial aspects of Weil’s life and thought: they offer an additional dimension to her understanding of the supernatural; they correct Rowan Williams’ misunderstanding of her account of preferential love; and argue against Thomas Nevin’s attempt to marginalize her as another example of Jewish self-hatred. The book also presents and assesses the new evidence for Weil’s baptism.
in Diogenes Allen and Eric Springsted, Spirit, Nature, and Community: Issues in the Thought of Simone Weil, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1994, chapter 5, pp. 77-93.
“The Christ of Simone Weil,”
in Panichas, The Critic As Conservator: Essays in Literature, Society, and Culture, Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press
Simone Weil, the Gita and the Upanisads
“This thesis is a study of the influence of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Upanishads on the religious and philosophical thought of Simone Weil. It will examine the major tenets of Weil’s thought in an attempt to determine where Weil was influenced by the teaching of these texts and where she rejected them. Chapter One will be a brief introduction to Weil’s relationship to the Gita and the Upanishads. Chapter Two will look at Weil’s cosmology paying particular attention to her concepts of decreation, necessity gravity, and grace. It will then look at the Indian notions of dharma, karma, and the Samkhya teachings found in the Gita in an attempt to determine where she was influenced by these concepts and where she rejected them. Chapter Three will look at Weil’s views on knowledge paying particular attention to her notions of reading, levels of reading, and levels of knowledge. It will then look at the teachings on knowledge in the Gita and the Upanishads in an attempt to determine their influence on Weil’s thought. Chapter Four will examine Weil’s soteriology, including her views on ‘actionless action’, detachment and affliction. It will then turn to these concepts in the Upanisads and Glta again looking for ways in which they influenced Weil. Chapter Five will draw together the preceding chapters, in an attempt to assess the overall influence of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Upanishads on Weil’s thought. It will conclude with suggestions for further study of Weil’s work.”
Unpublished Masters Thesis (University of Calgary), 1989
ht: University of Calgary Online Library (Simone Weil)
Between the Human and the Divine: The Political Thought of Simone Weil
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Between the Human and the Divine: The Political Thought of Simone Weil,
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Simone Weil and the Suffering of Love
Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock
“Simone Weil — Sacrifice: a Problem for Theology”
in Jasper, D., ed., Images of Belief in Literature, p. 22
