Recent issue of Esprit is focussed on Simone Weil

Esprit  August/September 2012 is subtitled:

Simone Weil, notre contemporaine and includes the following articles on Simone:

Chenavier, Robert. "Quand agir, c'est lire:la lecture créatrice selon Simone Weil." 

Gérard, Valérie. "Simone Weil, l'enracinement,  la décolonization." 

Holt, Alice. "À la recherche du socialisme démocratique:  la pensée politique de George Orwell et de Simone Weil." 

Janiaud, Joël. "Simone Weil, le malheur et l'invisible."

Lindenberg, Daniel. "Politique de Simone Weil.".

Mongin, Olivier. "Maurice Blanchot, un lecteur attentif de Simone Weil Entre Emmanuel Levinas et Albert Camus." 

Samama, Guy. "Albert Camus et Simone Weil: le sentiment du tragique ,le goût de la beauté." 

Taïbi, Nadia. "Être de Son Temps."

Worms, Frédéric. "Simone Weil, Albert Camus, le siècle et nous." 

Simone's work now available in Past Masters

The Past Masters Continental Philosophy section includes  works by Simone:


LES ŒUVRES DE SIMONE WEIL
ISBN: 978-1-57085-068-4
La Liste de Titres
L’ENRACINEMENT © Éditions Gallimard, 1949
LA CONNAISSANCE SURNATURELLE © Éditions Gallimard, 1950
LA CONDITION OUVRIÈRE (Présentation et notes par Robert Chenavier)
© Éditions Gallimard, 1951 et 2002
LETTRE À UN RELIGIEUX © Éditions Gallimard, 1951
LA SOURCE GRECQUE © Éditions Gallimard, 1953
OPPRESSION ET LIBERTÉ © Éditions Gallimard, 1955
VENISE SAUVÉE © Éditions Gallimard, 1955
ÉCRITS DE LONDRES ET DERNIÈRES LETTRES © Éditions
Gallimard, 1957
ÉCRITS HISTORIQUES ET POLITIQUES © Éditions Gallimard, 1960
PENSÉES SANS ORDRE CONCERNANT L’AMOUR DE DIEU ©
Éditions Gallimard, 1962
SUR LA SCIENCE © Éditions Gallimard, 1966
POÈMES suivi de VENISE SAUVÉE © Éditions Gallimard, 1968

Check your local university library to see if they have purchased assess to this.digital collection.

Simone's influence on Iris Murdoch

In Rowe and Osborn's  article "The Saint and the Hero: Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil" published in Irish Murdoch,  Philosopher Meets Novelist. Eds. Araújo, Sofia de Melo and Fátima Vieria. New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 103-13, the authors note that while  there is much mention of Weil's influence on Murdoch, "few explore it in any sustained way".  The one major study referenced is the one by Griffin,  but I have a found a number of works focussing on Weil and Murdoch including the following:



Bok, Sissela. "'No One to Receive It': Simone Weil's Unforeseen Legacy." Common Knowledge 12.2 (2006): 252-60. Print.
---. "Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch: The Possibility of Dialogue." Gender Issues 22.4 (2005): 71-78. Print.
Bowden, Peta. "Ethical Attention: Accumulating Understandings." European Journal of Philosophy 6.1 (1998): 59-77. Print.
larson, Kate. ""Allt Som Har Ett Värde Är Frukten Av Ett Sammanträffande” : Värdebegreppet Hos Simone Weil Och Bos Iris Murdoch." På Spaning... Från Svenska Kyrkans Forskardagar 2009. Ed. Stenström, Hanna. Forskning for Kyrkan. Stockholm: Verbum, 2010. 343-51. Print.
---. "“Everything Important Is to Do with Passion” : Iris Murdoch’s Concept of Love and Its Platonic Origin." Diss. Uppsala Universitet, 2009. Print.
Lipson, Michael, and Abigail Lipson. "Psychotherapy and the Ethics of Attention." The Hastings Center Report 26.1 (1996): 17-22. Print.
Lovibond, Sabina. "The Simone Weil Factor." Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2011. 28-46. Print.
Mackenzie, Rod. "From Paranoia to Metanoia: Education and the Journey of the Soul." PESGB (Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain) Annual Conference. 2006. .http://www.philosophy-of-education.org/pdfs/Saturday/Mackenzie.pdf
Morgan, Vance G. "Humility and the Transcendent." Faith and Philosophy 18.3 (2001): 306-22. Print.
Purcell, Donald. "Iris Murdoch's the Green Knight and Simone Weil." Cahiers Simone Weil 19.2 (1996): 225-38. Print.

2013 essay on Simone touches on her influence

François, Anne M. "Simone Weil: Ambivalence in Search of Gd." French Women Authors: The Significance of the Spiritual (1400-2000). Eds. Haskett, Kelsey L. and Holly Faith Nelson. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 2013. 131-47. Print.

Ann François has just published an essay on Simone that notes on p. 133 "Many philosophers, theologians and sociologists acknowledge they have been influenced by her writings."  I would argue that the sphere of influence is far broader,  I have located many works influenced by Simone's writings in fields including art, education, medicine and nursing,

Looking for open access academic journal articles on Simone?

openedition  -  great source for locating freely available academic articles in the Humanities and Social Sciences.  A search for "simone weil" as a phrase retrieves over 200 items.

BBC broadcast of Simone Weil

Yesterday the BBC  RADIO 4 broadcast  Melvyn Bragg talking with  Beatrice Han Pile,  Stephen Plant and David Levy  about Simone Weil.  43 minutes in length.

English translation of Chenavier's work Simone Weil : l'attention au réel will be released October 2012

From  University of Notre Dame Press:

NOTRE DAME, IN, August 30, 2012—In October, the University of Notre Dame Press will publish Simone Weil: Attention to the Real by Robert Chenavier, translated by Bernard E. Doering. Originally published in French in 2009, Simone Weil: Attention to the Real leads the reader through Weil's earliest writing as a perceptive social critic to her work on spirituality and materialism, and finally to her concept of decreation, produced before her death at the age of thirty-four. "To an exceptional degree," Chenavier says, "the life of Simone Weil, her personality, her commitment, and her reflection form one single whole." Chenavier argues that Weil's vocation took on a very original form in the history of philosophical thought.


"Bernard Doering has crafted a very fine translation of Robert Chenavier's comprehensive but brief introduction to Simone Weil's philosophical project. It provides an excellent English introduction to the social philosophy of Simone Weil with due attention to her understanding of the importance of work in learning to attend to the real. Doering's translation will be of interest to both a religious and secular readership, both inside and outside the academy." —Lawrence Schmidt, University of Toronto

Read more:

http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01544