Friday, December 13, 2019

Massive amount of writing on Weil

When Debra Jensen and I first began the Simone Weil bibliography in 2005 with the intent to update the bibliographies previously prepared by Little, we never imagined the extent of material annually produced.  This project has required considerable time and effort and at times feels a bit overwhelming! We should have paid attention to Thomas Nevin's warning in his 2000 work Simone Weil: Portrait of a Self-exiled Jew that "the proliferation of writing on Weil since 1979 would seem to make further supplements a gargantuan undertaking." (p. 459)  Currently, I am locating a yearly average of over 200 works with significant content on Weil.  Of course there are many more works which briefly mention or  simply quote Weil.  A search on google scholar for the phrase "Simone Weil"  retrieves over 1700 hits for 2019 alone! Culling through all this output for substantive content is a very labour intensive process!

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