Waiting
An Organizational Guide to Simone Weil’s “Reflections on the Good Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God”
The Value of “Failed Experiments” in School Studies
Weil, Attention and Humility
Attentive Pedagogy: Essays on Simone Weil’s “Reflections on the Good Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God”
Simone Weil: Waiting for God (parts 1 and 2)–The God Frequency
Abi Doukhan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and holds the Pearl and Nathan Halegua Family Initiative in Ethics and Tolerance. She holds a Masters in philosophy from the Sorbonne and a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Nanterre, Paris, France. Her recent publications include Emmanuel Levinas: A Philosophy of Exile (Bloomsbury, October 2012), and Biblical Portraits of Exile (Routledge, June 2016).
YouTube class lecture (May 13, 2o22)
A Spiritual Friendship: Simone Weil and Père Perrin
J. M. Perrin’s Preface to Attente de Dieu
Attention: Thomas A. Clark and Simone Weil
This essay studies the connection between attention and redemption in the poetry of Thomas A. Clark. It discusses the possibility of using Simone Weil’s religious philosophy to interpret Clark’s understanding of attention as ‘waiting’. It argues that while there are affinities between Clark and Weil, Clark’s poetic practice also reveals a resistance to the ascetic extremes which attention assumes in Weil’s philosophy. To think through the difference between attention as method and style, the essay then draws on the failures of Descartes’ Meditations in order to argue that only a practical, that is to say, stylistic, engagement with attention will allow for the radical attention that Weil sought but could not achieve.
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1–16, and American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 84, No. 3.
Waiting for God: A Hasidic View
Comparative Civilizations Review, vol. 38, no. 38, pp. 12-36
