Thursday, June 21, 2018

Alice Rivaz

I have located two works by Valérie Cossy which discuss Weil's influence on Rivaz:

Cossy, Valérie. 2011. "Becoming an Old Woman: Feminism, Destiny and Freedom According to Alice Rivaz and Simone de Beauvoir."  Forum for Modern Language Studies 47 (2):222-233.

Cossy, Valérie. 2015. Alice Rivaz: Devenir romancière. Genève: Editions Suzanne Hurter.  See chapter 1 for section "Simone Weil" pp. 30-34

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Rougemont and Weil

Two theses have explored Denis de  Rougemont and Weil.   The first one in depth, the other one with a few references to Weil:

Nguyen, Minh Quang. "Une lecture de la modernité par le biais de l’amour et du politique chez Arendt, Weil et Rougemont." Diss, University of Ottawa, 2017. https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/35708https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/35708.

Dubreuil, Emmanuelle Hériard. " The Personalism of Denis de Rougemont: Spirituality and Politics in 1930s Europe."  Diss, St. John's College, 2005. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/262773/Dubreuil-2005-PhD.pdf?sequence=1https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/262773/Dubreuil-2005-PhD.pdf?sequence=1.


Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Contents for Cahiers Simone Weil

The Association pour l'Etude de la Societé  de Simone Weil has posted the contents for each issue  of Cahiers Simone Weil back to 2013:

http://www.simoneweil-association.com/category/les-cahiers-simone-weil/

René Guénon

I have located a few works on Weil and Guénon:

Accart, Xavier. "René Guénon et les milieux littéraires et intellectuels français de son temps (histoire d'une réception)" . PhD, Diss, Ecole pratique des hautes etudes. Section des Sciences religieuses, 2005.

Bisson, David. René Guénon: Une politique de l'esprit. Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2013.  See section "Le combat métaphysique de Simone Weil" pp. 295 - 307.

Reynaud, Patricia. "Mystique moderne et engagement social. Lecture croisée de Simone Weil, René Guénon et Pierre Bourdieu." Cahiers Simone Weil, vol. 26, no. 4, 2003, pp. 399-415.

Sourisse, Michel. "Simone Weil et René Guénon." Cahiers Simone Weil, vol. 20, no. 4, 1997, pp. 265-297.