One Act play on Simone

The Italian journal Scena  has a  review of a one act play on Simone at the theatre Franco Parenti  in Milan, on March 1, 2013.

Recent Italian articles

DEP: Deportate, Esuli e Profughe v. 21, 2013 includes 4 works on Simone:


Adinolfi, Isabella. "Simone Weil e Etty Hillesum: l’attesa di Dio."
Canciani, Domenico. "Simone Weil.Il male dell’Occidente:lo sradicamento." 
Farina, Paolo. "Simone Weil e il male dello sradicamento sociale, intervento" 

Zaretti, Paola. " Maria d’oro, Maria di catrame. Radicamento e sradicamento nel pensiero e nella vita di Simone Weil." 

René Girard

The discovery of a fairly recent article by O'Regan in Modern Theology which highlights connections between Simone and Girard led me to search my database for works on Girard and Simone and discovered a fair number:

Astell, Ann W. "Saintly Mimesis, Contagion, and Empathy in the Thought of René Girard, Edith Stein, and Simone Weil." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 22 2 (2004): 116-31.

Jesson, Stuart. "Forgiveness and its reason." Diss. University of Nottingham, 2010. http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk/2038/1/Forgiveness_and_its_reason.pdf.

Meaney, Marie Cabaud. "Simone Weil and René Girard: Violence and the Sacred." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 84.3 (2010): 565-87.

O'Regan, Cyril. "Countermimesis and Simone Weil's Christian Platonism." The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil. Eds. Doering, E. Jane and Eric O. Springsted. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. 181-207.

---. "Girard and the spaces of Apocalyptic." Modern Theology 28.1 (2012): 112-40.

Palaver, Wolfgang. "Die Frage des Opfers im Spannungsfeld von West und Ost : René Girard, Simone Weil und Mahatma Gandhi über Gewalt und Gewaltfreiheit." Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie 132.4 (2010): 462-81.

Putino, Angela. "La figura dell'innocente in Simone Weil e René Girard." Labirinti del male. Ed. Zarone, Giuseppe. Biblioteca di Filosofia e Teologia: Saggi. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1997. 115-28.

Rose, Phil. "A conversation with René Girard (August 2006/May 2007)." Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis and Culture 18  (2011): 23-38.  http://128.220.160.198/journals/contagion/v018/18.rose.pdf.

Roy, Paul-Emile. "L'Indéfectible Espérance." Action Nationale 93.1 (2003): 112-30.

Van Coillie, Geert. "Homerus' gedicht over het geweld, geïnterpreteerd door Simone Weil en René Girard." Ethische Perspectieven 15.2 (2005): 115-20. http://www.ethische-perspectieven.be/viewpic.php?LAN=N&TABLE=EP&ID=891.

Blog posts on Simone

The Maverick Philosopher has some interesting posts on Simone

Viktor Frankl

Just tripped across an older work on Frankl and Simone:  Kühn, Rolf. " La vie affective en psychologie et en philosopie. L'apport de Viktor E. Frankl et de Simone Weil a une théorie thérapeutique du sentiment " Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologique 69  (1988): 521-62.

I am in the process of verifying that these two works also contain information on Frankl and Simone:

Kühn, Rolf. "La mélancholie est encore une bonne humeur " Actualités psychiatriques 1 (1995) : 7-9.
Kühn, Rolf. " Existence et affectivité   " Radicalité et passibilité. Pour une phénoménologie pratique.  Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003. 165-90.

Canadian Poet Anne Carson and Simone Weil

So far I have collected these works with discussions of Anne Carson and Simone Weil, including a very recent thesis by Craig Brian Hannaway:

Baker, Timothy C. "Praying to an Absent God: The Poetic Revealing of Simone Weil." Culture, Theory &      Critique 47 2 (2006): 133-47.
Disney, Dan. "Sublime Disembodiment? Self-as-Other in Anne Carson's Decreation." Orbis Litterarum 67 1  (2012): 25-38.
Hannaway, Craig Brian. "Translations of the Self: A.E. Housman and Anne Carson, Between Scholarship  and Creativity " Diss. Durham University, 2013. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7753/.
Ruprecht, Louis. "Righting the self, and writing God." Rev. of   Decreation, Poetry, Essays Opera by Anne Carson. Thesis Eleven 93 1 (2008): 101-09.

Looking for Janet Little's Thesis on Simone Weil?

Durham University's e-theses collection provides the full-text of Little's theses ("The Theme of mediation in the writings of Simone Weil",  Doctoral thesis, 1970,http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/8048/ ) as well as a few others focussed on Simone:

Sim, Rosemary, "Simone Weil and Irish Murdosch: The Relevance of Personality to the concept of virtue",  Masters thesis, University of Durham,  1985,http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6802/ .

Parry, Gregory David, "The "void' in Simone Weil and the 'broken middle' in Gillian Rose: the genesis of the    search for salvation",  Doctoral thesis, Durham University, 2006 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1300/ .

Finnish Works

Just tripped across a 2011 thesis  by Maija Pietikäinen that has a great many references to Simone Weil -

Pietikäinen, Maija. "Laulu ja amor mundi : tutkimus laulusta eräänä maailmasta huolehtimisen perusaktiviteettina." Diss. University of Jyväskylä,, 2011. https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/handle/123456789/36641.

I have pasted below some of the other works I have collected to date published in Finland (Thanks to Osmo Pekonen for correcting my Finnish and providing me information on more titles!).

Ahonen, Mervi. "Oratorio." Niin & näin 14 3 (2007): 72-73.

Hankamäki, Jukka Sakari. Rakkauden välittäjä : kulttuurikritiikki ja eettisen ihmisen idea Simone Weilin ajattelussa. Like-pokkari. 2 ed. Helsinki: Like, Gummerus Kirjapaino, 2006.

---. "Rakkauden välittäjä: kulttuurikritiikki ja eettisen ihmisen ideaali Simone Weilin ajattelussa." University of Helsinki, 1997.

Impola, Kaj-Henrik. ""Sydämen kätkössä". Simone Weilin ajatuksia suvereenisuudesta, laillisuudesta ja oikeudenmukaisuudesta." Oikeus - kulttuuria ja teoriaa : Juhlakirja Hannu Tolonen 2005. Eds. Tala, Jyrki and Kauko Wikström. Turun Yliopiston Oikeustieteellisen Tiedekunnan Julkaisuja : A. Juhlajulkaisut. Vammla, Finland: Vammalan Kirjapaino Oy, 2005. 1-24.

Kajava, Mika. "De novis libris iudicia." Arctos : acta philologica Fennica  34 (2001): 272.

Ketvel, Roo. "Ihmekristityn yhtenäisteoria." Parnasso 57 7 (2007): 78.

Konkka, Anita. "Mystikon rakkaus : elämäni kirja." Nuori voima : kulttuuriharrastajain lehti 4 (1995): 56.

Korsström, Tuva "Naispuolinen nero." Osaako nainen ajatella? : Esseitä ja haastatteluja Kirjallisuutta ajatteleville naisille. Helsinki: Like, 2003. 67-98.

Kuusisaari, Harri. "Oratorio saarnaa mutta ei kosketa." Rondo classica : klassisen musiikin erikoislehti 45 1 (2007): 56.

Luoma, Matti. "Simone Weil - uskomaton elämä." Kanava 7 6 (1979): 334-38.

Numminen, Tuija. "Teologins relation till politik : tankar hos Simone Weil och Dorothee Sölle." Finsk Tidskrift : kultur, ekonomi, politik 251-252 7-8 (2002): 409-14.https://arto.linneanet.fi/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=827946.

---. "Tiden : Guds abdikation och människans villkor." Ad lucem: tidskrift för kultur och livsåskådning 95 1 (2003): 4-13.

Olin, Mikael. "Misslyckanden." Ad lucem : tidskrift för kultur och livsåskådning 91 1 (1999): 8-13.
---. "Utsattheten - Simone Weils väg till ett religiöst liv." Åbo Academi University, 2000.

Pekonen, Osmo. "La sainte face de Simone nous examine." Tempus perfectum 11  (2013): 41-42.
---. "Weilin merkillinen perhe." Aistit, uni, rakkaus. Kaksitoista katsetta Kaija Saariahoon. Ed. Hako, Pekka. Helsinki: Lurra Editions, 2012. 71-88.

Peura, Annukka. "Mielikuvitus, työ ja todellisuus : Simone Weilin muistiinpanoja ystävyydestä ja rakkaudesta." Nuori voima : kulttuuriharrastajain lehti  1995 : 4 (1995): 7-9.

Sontag, Susan. "Simone Weil." Nuori voima : kulttuuriharrastajain lehti 4-5 (2009): 76-77.

Varto, Juha. Mitä Simone Weil on minulle opettanut. Helsinki: Kirjastudio, 2005.

Varto, Juha, and Liisa Veenkivi. "Naisen tie: Edith Stein ja Simone Weil." Ihmisen tie : Keskusteluja mystikoista. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto, 1995. 51-62.

Wallenius, Tommi. "Ajattelun askeesi." Niin & näin 13 1 (2006): 110-11.

Yrjänä, Hanna. "Kuka olikaan hyvä : etiikan perustaa Mirkka Rekolan ja Simone Weilin valossa." Taite : runouslehti  1. vsk (1995): 22-23.

Rachel Lemkin

Recent article in Holocaust and Genocide Studies by Balakian makes a brief statement comparing Weil to Lemkin in regard to roots.

Balakian, Peter. "Raphael Lemkin, Cultural Destruction, and the Armenian Genocide." Holocaust and Genocide Studies 27 1 (2013): 57-89

Cristina Campo

Just tripped across an Italian thesis by Elena Rocca on Simone that  includes a review of Cristina Campo's translation of Simone's work.

Rocca, Elena. "Cité Réelle, Cité Rêvée: Percorsi d'estetica politica in Simone Weil." MA Thesis. Università Ca' Foscari 2008. http://www.cristinacampo.it/public/opera%20di%20simone%20weil%20%20venezia%20salva%20%20tradotta%20e%20curata%20da%20cristina%20campo.pdf

So far I have collected a number of other works on Campo and Simone Weil:

Cedolini, Elisa. "Cristian Campo E Simone Weil." B.A. Thesis. Universita' Degli Studi Di Trieste, 2001. http://www.gianfrancobertagni.it/materiali/weil/tesicedolini.pdf
Cristina, Mazzoni. "The Beauty of the Beast: Fairy Tales as Mystical Texts in Simone Weil and Cristina Campo." Spiritus 11 2 (2011): 156-75.
Negri, Federica. La passione della purezza : Simone Weil e Cristina Campo. Soggetti rivelati. Vol. 6. Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2005.
Negri, Frederica. "Simone Weil par Christina Campo." Simone Weil : la passion de la raison. Eds. Calle, Mireille and Eberhard Gruber. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003. 101-17.
Para, Jean-Baptiste. "Cristina Campo et Simone Weil." Simone Weil et le poétique  (Colloque international réuni à l'École Normale Supérieure de Paris 19-21 octobre 2006). Eds. Thélot, Jérôme, Jean-Michel Le Lannou and Enikö Sepsi. Les Cahiers de Marge. Paris: Kimé, 2007. 271-81.
Pieracci Harwell, Margherita. Cristina Campo e i suoi amici. Nuova Universale Studium. Roma: Studium, 2005.
---. "Cristina Campo e Simone Weil." Humanitas 56 3 (2001): 381-412.
---. "«Una scala verso l'alto di cui e difficile intravedere la cima». Il dialogo tra Simone Weil e Cristina Campo." Simone Weil : scendere verso l'alto Ed. Reale, Giusi Maria. Collezione Territori delle idee. Udine: Campanotto Editore, 2008. 111-41.

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Comment in the Guardian

Interesting comment in the Guardian comment section by Mishra Pankaj on Simone Weil and uprootedness entitled "The need for roots brought home the modern era's disconnection with the past and the loss of community"

Pankaj notes:

 "But her most original move was to abandon the language of rights – the claims of possessive individuals against others that had provided political philosophy with its syntax since Hobbes and Locke. Instead, she talked of needs, duties and obligations as the basis of a good society – something that would be immediately familiar to Buddhist philosophers but remains marginal in the western tradition of political theory."

2004 issue of Théophilyon is devoted to Simone Weil

Théophilyon contains a number of articles on Simone not only in the 2004 issue devoted to her:

Danese, Attilio. "La politique comme recherche du moindre mal chez Simone Weil et Hannah Arendt." Théophilyon 9.2 (2004): 378-406.
Decrop, Geneviève. "Redoutable est la tentation d’être bon, critique des politiques de la pitié chez Hannah Arendt." Théophilyon 9.2 (2004): 435-70.
Delsol, Chantal. "La "banalite du mal"." Theophilyon 9.2 (2004): 335-45. Print.
Di Nicola, Giula Paola. "Prestige du pouvoir, puissance de l'imagination (a la lumière de Venise sauvè de S. Weil)." Théophilyon 9.2 (2004): 346-77.
Dufffé, Bruno-Marie. "Le pradigme critique du commencement." Théophilyon 9.2 (2004).
Duvert, Pierre. ""Jugement" arendtien, "Vérité  weilienne?" Théophilyon 9.2 (2004).
Gabellieri, Emmanuel. "« Action » et « Inspiration »: un double fondement du politique? " Théophilyon 9.2 (2004): 559-79.
---. "Christianisme et politique chez H. Arendt et S. Weil." Théophilyon 5.2 (2000): 287-322.
---. "Des « droits de l'homme » aux « obligations envers l'être humain » (S.Weil) - Métaphysique et politique de la diversité humaine." Théophilyon 13.2 (2008): 287-302.
---. "Dieu personnel, Dieu impersonnel, Dieu Trinitaire: Mystique et  Christianisme chez S. Weil et J. Monchanin." Théophilyon 3.2 (1998): 449-78.
---. "Herméneutique de la culture et universalité éthique Simone Weil et Paul Ricoeur." Théophilyon 3.1 (1998): 14-23.
---. "La "Theodoramatique" de Simone Weil : Enfance du monde et jeu d l'amour." Théophilyon 5.2 (2001): 429-50.
---. "Métaphysique et mystique : S.Weil et J.Monchanin." Théophilyon 3.2 (1998): 449-78.
Moreau, Paul. "Dignité humaine et philosophie du droit." Théophilyon 9.2 (2004): 407-34.
Ricoeur, Paul. "Message de Paul Ricoeur au colloque international Simone Weil-Paul Ricoeur de Rio De Janeiro, 13-15 septembre 1993." Théophilyon 3.1 (1998): 11-13.
Rolland, Patrice. " Le christianisme est-il anti-politique ?" Théophilyon 9.2 (2004): 471-91.
Springsted, Eric O. " A la recherche d'un nouveau saint Benoît."Attention" et formation d'une communauté." Théophilyon 9.2 (2004): 535-57.