Monday, January 29, 2024

Forthcoming Book on Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil

 Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations

This collection of articles edited by  Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingstone will be available in February.  See link below for contents:


https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/hannah-arendt-and-simone-weil-9781350344464/

Labyrinth - focusses two issues on Simone Weil

 The  two latest issues of the journal Labyrinth are focussed on Weil.

https://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/issue/view/21  -  "Social and political thought"

https://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/issue/view/22 -  "Aesthetics, ethics and spirituality"


Articles are freely available.

Sunday, October 1, 2023

Wittgenstein and Weil

 A edited collection of works on Weil and Wittgenstein will be published by Routledge in November.   


Between Wittgenstein and Weil edited by Jack Manzi


For list of Chapters:  See https://www.routledge.com/Between-Wittgenstein-and-Weil-Comparisons-in-Philosophy-Religion-and/Manzi/p/book/9781032291093





Monday, May 1, 2023

Martin Luther King Jr

 Michail Theodosiadias has just published an open access article extensively comparing King to Weil:

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Theodosiadias, Michail. 2023. "Self-Purification and Social Dramatization; from Simone Weil to Martin Luther King Jr."  Religions 14 (4):541. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14040541.  Comparison of Weil and Martin Luther King Jr.

Thursday, February 9, 2023

Issue devoted to Weil

 2022 issue 1 of the Dutch journal Filosofie is devoted to Weil and includes the following articles:


De Kesel, Marc. 2022. "Kijken, niet eten. Simone Weil over het schone."  Filosofie (1):15-19. 

De Maeyer, Lieven. 2022. "Hoezo, wachten op God? Simone Weil over verlangen, geloof en ongeloof."  Filosofie (1):10-14. 

Decreus, Thomas. 2022. "Weil en de zoektocht naar collectieve vrijheid."  Filosofie (1):5-9. 

Graste, Jacques. 2022. "Ontworteling, de ziekte van onze tijd in L'Enracinement van Simone Weil."  Filosofie (1):20-24. 

Willemsen, MariĆ«tte 2022. "Simone Weil als morele standaard in de ethiek van Iris Murdoch."  Filosofie (1):25-30. 

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Environmental Studies and Weil

 So far I have located 3 works dealing with Weil and the environment including  Gerber's 2020 work "Degrowth and Critical Agrarian Studies in Journal of Peasant Studies.



Boris Souvarine

 To date I have identified 6 works about Weil and Souvarine including Souvarine's work on Weil.