Creating lists on WorldCat.org

I note that Ulla Holm has created a list on Worldcat of works on Simone Weil. If you create a free acount on Worldcat you can "watch this list". It is called Weiliana

I have also created a list called Simone Weil that links to works on Simone published since 1995. BUT until there is an easier way than moving 10 records at a time, this list will remain incomplete - currently 70 of 687 items!

Swedish Publications on Simone

I note that my database of over 2500 works only includes 6 items written in Swedish. This is an area in which I will need to do my digging! Just noticed the following 2011 Swedish work:

Henning, Peter. "Avskapelsens estetik. Om representationskritikens förhandlingar i Lars Noréns En dramatikers dagbok (The Subject’s Detachment and the Return of the Real. Towards an Aesthetically and Performance Oriented Understanding of Lars Norén’s Journal ) " Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 11.1 (2011): 55-65.

2012 works

Here are a couple of 2012 works that I have just located through a search of our discovery service, Summon:

Campbell, Timothy. "Enough of a Self”: Esposito’s Impersonal Biopolitics." Law, Culture and the Humanities 8.1 (2012): 31-46. Print.

Verbin, N. "Martyrdom: A Philosophical Perspective." Philosophical Investigations 35.1 (2012): 68-87. Print.

Jackson, Timothy P. "HEROISM ON AN EMPTY STOMACH”: Weil and Hillesum on Love and Happiness Amid the Holocaust." Journal of Religious Ethics 40.1 (2012): 72-98. Print.

Esposito, Roberto. "The Dispositif of the Person." Law, Culture and the Humanities 8.1 (2012): 17-30. Print.

Simone Weil and Animality

Anat Pick has informed me that her new work _Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film has recently been published by Columbia University Press.

"The book draws on Weil's philosophical and theological thinking to explore questions about animality, humanity, and ethics. Weil is the central presence in the book".

Political Writings of Simone Weil

Éditions rue d'Ulm last spring published Simone Weil, lectures politiques edited by Valerie Gérard.

This work in addition to containing writings by Simone includes a number of articles on her:


Introduction : la politique comme problème, par Valérie Gérard

L’obligation dans L’Enracinement, par Frédéric Worms

Simone Weil et le déracinement du moi, par Joël Janiaud

Le don du malheur. Première lecture de « L’amour de Dieu et le malheur », par Patrick Hochart

L’écriture de Simone Weil dans « L’amour de Dieu et le malheur ». Déploiement de la phrase et approfondissement de la pensée. Seconde lecture, par Pierre Pachet

Simone Weil et la politique au XXe siècle, par Patrice Rolland

L’injustice sociale et les figures du refus chez Simone Weil. Révolte, révolution, revendication, résistance,
par Martine Leibovici

Les contradictions du pouvoir politique, par Valérie Gérard

An Encounter with Simone Weil

The film An Encounter with Simone Weil has recently received the Special Founders Prize by Michael Moore at his Traverse City Film Festival. It has also been screened at a number of other film festivals and events including the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April 2011.

The Internet Movie Database currently lists these two reviews of the film:

http://1morefilmblog.com/wordpress/an-encounter-with-simone-weil-haslett-2011/
http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2011/04/full-frame-documentary-film-festival-2011-an-encounter-with-simone-weil-and-a-good-man/

Another current article on Simone Weil from a health perspective

The European Journal of Mental Health in its recent issue has an article entitled Simone Weil: They Mystical Ascetic