Emily Dickenson

 Through HathiTrust I identified a 1998 work by Golden which includes a discussion of Weil and Dickenson.  So far I have a found a total of three works comparing Weil and Dickenson:

Bombaci, Nancy. 2013. "Autistic Thought and the Modern Mysticism of Simone Weil and Emily Dickinson."  Studies in Spirituality 23:213-238.

Borgna, Eugenio. 2016. L'indicibile tenerezza : In cammino con Simone Weil Milano: Feltrinelli.

Golden, Stephanie. 1998. Slaying the Mermaid: Women and the Culture of Sacrifice New York: Harmony Books. 

HathiTrust

HathiTrust is a great source for identifying books and journal issues on Weil.   If you are affiliated with an institution that is a member of HathiTrust,  once logged in, you currently also have access to the digital full text of a significant number of the works.  Due to the pandemic,  HathiTrust is providing  temporary access to the digital full text of works in their collection that are held in the print collection of your institution.   This is in addition to those works which are in the public domain or provided as open access.   A full-text keyword search for "Simone Weil" limited to works published since 1995  retrieves over 15,000 items of which, for me, currently over 4,000 are available with full text!  Even when the full text is not available the ability to conduct a limited search is helpful for identifying the extent of possible content in the book.

Bibliography updated

The Simone Weil Bibliography has been updated with 33 new records, the majority of which have been published this past year.   It now contains 50 records for  2020 publications.  I currently  have a further 60 titles published in 2020 for which I am waiting to view a copy when the pandemic is over and interlibrary loans are once again available.

The online bibliography now contains 5, 036 works.

Kierkegaard

Christopher Barnett in his 2011 work on Kierkegaard notes that "not many scholars have compared Kierkegaard and Weil, although a handful of studies are available."  I have located 14 works on this topic and a half were published prior to 2011.

Abdullah, Sarwar Ahmed. 2014. "'Negative Faith: The Moment of God's Absence': Simone Weil on Affliction." MA Thesis MA Thesis, Theology and Religious Studies, Saint Mary's University.  http://library2.smu.ca/bitstream/handle/01/26275/Abdullah_Sarwar_MASTERS_2014.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Allen, Diogenes. 1996. "The Character of Don Giovanni in Mozart's Opera." In The Beauty that Saves: Essays on Aesthetics and Language in Simone Weil, edited by John M. Dunaway and Eric O. Springsted, 173-183. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press.

Barnett, Christopher B. 2011. Kierkegaard, Pietism and Holiness, Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing.

Dilman, İlham. 1998. Love: Its Forms, Dimensions, and Paradoxes. New York: St. Martin's Press.  References to Simone throughout the book, but see especially 12.4 "Kierkegaard, Plato and Simone Weil on Loving the Beautiful"  p. 224-229.

Duran, Jane. 2000. "The Two Simones."  Ratio: An International Journal of Analytic Philosophy 13 (3):201-212.  Weil’s work is briefly compared to that of Leibnitz and in more depth, to Kierkegaard’s in relation to creation and the role and use of the intellect in encounters with the divine.  

Janiaud, Joël. 2006. Singularité et responsabilité : Kierkegaard, Simone Weil, Levinas, Travaux de philosophie. Paris Honoré Champion. Reprint, Excerpts, especially Chapter 3  "Stratégies De L'abnégation."  are published in  Simone Weil. Sagesse et Grâce Violente  Ed. Lussy, Florence de. 2nd ed. Montrouge: Bayard, 2009. 207-29.  .

Leung, Karey Kar Yee. 2007. "Suspension of Secular Seriousness: A Kierkegaardian Revival of Metaphysical Humor in Ethico-political Communication." PhD Diss, Political Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey . Within the larger context of a consideration of 'form and content' in philosophical, particularly, Kierkegaardian thought, Leung briefly discusses Weil's writing on the danger of dismissing or ignoring 'superstition' as well as the role of belief in political thought. 

Pattison, George. 2007. "Desire, Decreation and Unknowing in the God-relationship: Mystical Theology and its Transformation in Kierkegaard, Simone Weil and Dostoevsky " In Subjectivity and Transcendence, edited by Arne Grøn, Iben Damgaard and Søren Overgaard, 193-211. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. Pattison looks at the relationship between the self and God in mystical theology and as the title says “its transformation in Kierkegaard, Simone Weil and Dostoevsky”. 

Rothhaar, Timothy. 2011. "The Outcast Individual: Abraham and Affliction in the Broader Society."  Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies 3 (1):60-74.  http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=imwjournal&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.ca%2Fscholar%3Fstart%3D70%26q%3Dsimone%2Bweil%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D1%2C5%26as_ylo%3D2011%26as_yhi%3D2012#search=%22simone%20weil%22   Extensive comparison of Weil and Kierkegaard

Rubinstein, Ernest. 2014. "Simone Weil." In From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality, 227-250. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Sheil, Patrick. 2006. Kierkegaard and Levinas: The Subjunctive Mood. Edited by Martin Warner and Kevin Vanhoozer, Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology. London: Routledge. Reprint, First published in 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.  Includes comparison of Weil and Levinas and Kierkegaard

Tietjen, Mark A. 2017. "Kierkegaard, Weil and Agapic Moral Fideism." In Kierkegaard's God and the Good Life, edited by Stephen Minister, J. Aaron Simmons and Michael Strawser, 78-91. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.  Extensive comparison of Weil’s and Kierkegaard’s understanding of love and fideism

Verbin, Nehama. 2013. "Providence Interiorized: Maimonides, Kierkegaard and Weil on Divine Providence." In Knowledge, Action Pluralism: Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy of Religion, edited by Sebastian Kołodziejczyk and Janusz Salamon, 225-247. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Welz, Claudia. 2012. "Human Perfection: Overcoming Oneself: A Discussion of Kierkegaard's Four Upbuilding Discourses from 1844 with reference to Luther, Heidegger, and Simone Weil." In Kierkegaard in Lisbon : Contemporary Readings of Repetition, Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments and the 1843 and 1844 Upbuilding Discourses, edited by José Miranda Justo and Elisabete M de Sousa, 97-115. Lisboa, Portugal: Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa.  http://www.kierkegaard.centrodefilosofia.com/pdfs/Kierkegaard_in_Lisbon.pdf

           http://docplayer.net/37034681-Kierkegaard-in-lisbon.html

Italian legal and political philosopher Norberto Bobbio

After a long hiatus,  I am back working on the Simone Weil Bibliography.   I have located a 2018 thesis focussed on Weil and Bobbio as well as an article in the papers of the Italian Society for Law and Literature:

Prete, Mariangela del. 2018. "Dalla guerra alla costruzione della pace. La riflessione filosofica di Simone Weil e Norberto Bobbio."  MA Thesis, Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo.  (for partial contents see -   https://www.docsity.com/it/dalla-guerra-alla-costruzione-della-pace-la-riflessione-filosofica-di-simone-weil-e-norberto-bobbio/5101768/)

Greco, Tommaso. 2012. "Un weiliano inaspettato. Norberto Bobbio e la mitezza."  ISLL Papers: Italian Society for Law and Literature 12:1-13. https://www.lawandliterature.org/area/papers/Greco%20ISLL%20Papers%202012.pdf

Artaud and Weil

Just last month an article by Yves Schulze comparing Weil and Artaud appeared in Modern & Contemporary France in the early articles posted online, entitled " Prendre sur soi : Cruauté et charité dans l’écriture d’Antonin Artaud et de Simone Weil", DOI: 10.1080/09639489.2020.1749582.

While in an earlier blog post on Weil and Judaism I mentioned the work by Lotringer, I have discovered a few other works comparing Artaud and Weil:

Chiappone, Francis. 2005. Review of Les Promesses de l’oeuvre, Artaud, Nietzsche, Simone Weil, by Jean Michel Rey. Cahiers Simone Weil 28 (3):310-312.

Garcia Vila, Antonio. 2013. "Espectros de Artaud."  El Viejo Topo 301:48-61.

Lotringer, Sylvère. 2003. "Artaud était-il chrétien?" In Fous d'Artaud, 13-38. Paris: Sens and Tonka.  Extensive discussion comparing  Artuad's and Weil's relationship to Judaism and Christianity

Rey, Jean-Michel. 2003. Les promesses de l'oeuvre : Artaud, Nietzsche, Simone Weil. Paris: Desclée De Brouwer.

Elizabeth Bishop

Marcel Inhoff has just published the article "“Ladies and Gents, Ladies and Gents” – Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop and Female Autobiographies in American Postwar Literature" in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. It is available to subscribers as an early article published online May 13, 2020.

In this article Inhoff extensively discusses Weil's impact on McCarthy and Bishop. Inhoff notes that "Bishop's connection to Weil has never been explored" (p. 5) but I have located one article with considerable discussion of Weil and Bishop: 

Lafford, Erin. 2011. "Elizabeth Bishop's  'Dappled Thing': Visual Counterpoint and Devotional Attention in 'The Man-Moth'    "  Literature and Theology 25 (3):252-267. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frr021.

Joan Dargan's 1999 book Simone Weil: Thinking Poetically also includes some reference to Weil and Bishop.

Few more works on John Rawls and Weil

Four years ago I posted one reference I located on Rawls and Weil, the work by Heifetz and Minelli.  Today, I just located a 2018 thesis focussed on Rawls and Weil and have also identified two other works touching on Rawls and Weil.

De Martino, Chiara 2018. "Prospettive per una metafisica pubblica: John Rawls e Simone Weil a confronto." MA Thesis, Philosophy, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele.   https://www.academia.edu/38030074/PROSPETTIVE_PER_UNA_METAFISICA_PUBBLICA_JOHN_RAWLS_E_SIMONE_WEIL_A_CONFRONTO?email_work_card=title

Heifetz, Aviad, and Enrico Minelli. 2016. "Overlapping Consensus Thin and Thick: John Rawls and Simone Weil."  Philosophical Investigations 39 (4):362-384.

Lassman, Peter. 2000. "Politics and 'The Fragility of the Ethico-Cultural'."  History of the Human Sciences 13 (1):125-139.

Bell, Richard H. 1998. Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion, Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers. Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Weil's impact in Sweden

Just added a work by Marta Ronne "Decoding a Genius Mind - The French Philosopher Simone Weil and the Swedish Critic Margit Abenius" published in From Darwin to Weil: Women as Transmitters of Ideas pp. 139-157.  This work talks about how Abenius introduced Weil to Sweden.

Back in a 2012 post I noted then that I only had located 6 works published in Swedish. The online bibliography currently includes 20 works in Swedish on Weil and I have a few more I am working on.  The National Library of Sweden's catalogue is a great source to identify both Swedish books and articles on Weil.

Weil and Mauriac

In March of 2019  I spent a wonderful 3 days at the Library of Congress  reviewing the last 7 years of issues of Cahiers  to verify articles and to identify new articles from their excellent listings of recent publications.   One such article identified by these listings at the back of each volume is the 1998 work by Olivier on Weil and Mauriac.  I have listed below this work and others collected on Mauriac and Weil published since 1995.

Croc, Paul. 1995. "François Mauriac et Simone Weil."  Cahiers Simone Weil 18 (2):155-167.

Ollivier, Sophie. 1998. "Force et justice chez Simone Weil et François Mauriac."  Nouveaux cahiers François Mauriac 6:58-71.

Turai, Laura. 2007. "Mauriac et la pensée weilienne."MA, Université Catholique Pázmány Péter de Piliscsaba 

Gutbrod, Gizella. 2010. "Notes sur le rapport entre Simone Weil et François Mauriac."  Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis Sectio Romanica 36:23-38. http://francia.ektf.hu/kiadvanyok/acta_1.pdf

Gutbrod, Gizella. 2017. "Notes sur le rapport entre Simone Weil et François Mauriac."  Cahiers Simone Weil 40 (1):51-70.

Touzot, Jean. 2019. "Weil Simone 1909-1943." In Dictionnaire François Mauriac, edited by Caroline Casseville and Jean Touzot, 1163-1164. Paris: Honoré Champion.

Theses on Weil - out there but hidden!

A search on DART - Europe E-Theses Portal provides you with access to over 800,000 open access theses but a search for  Simone Weil only retrieves 19 items! This result is not very reflective of what is actually available! 

So far I have collected over 300 theses published since 1995 (vast majority were published outside the US) and over 50 percent are available open access!  288 of the discovered theses are currently listed in the online bibliography

Porete and Weil

My thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by COVID -19.   While I am sheltering in place, I will try to use this time to work on the bibliography.

Today, I located this reference to a work comparing Weil and Marguerite Porete:

Nogueira, Maria Simone Marinho. 2019. "Aniquilamento e descriação: uma aproximação entre Marguerite Porete e Simone Weil."  Trans/Form/Ação 42:193-216. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-3173.2019.v42esp.11.p193 

A search on the Simone Weil Bibliography online retrieves a further 6 references on this topic.

George Steiner

The past week saw the passing of influential literary critic George Steiner.   I have collected a number of articles about Steiner and Weil as well as works by Steiner on Weil.

Simone Weil's influence on Murdoch - further update

The  Simone Weil Bibliography now contains 64 works on Weil and Murdoch.   Not yet included in this list are the articles on Weil and Murdoch  published in Iris Murdoch Review v. 8, 2018  full issue is available on the web -  https://d3mcbia3evjswv.cloudfront.net/files/IMR8%20final%20interior.pdf?f64VNLiqBJzY6omMCtWD7uAallFDa00h

Gravity and Grace - index to location of quotations in Weil's notebooks

The American Weil Society has posted this helpful guide compiled by Martin Andic and edited by Eric Springsted.

Notebook Sources for Gravity and Grace Quotations

Also available here: https://docslib.org/notebook-sources-for-gravity-and-grace-quotations

In his introduction Springsted highlights the issue of the loss of Weil's original context in Gustav Thibon's compilation of her papers and notebooks:


--> "Yet, GG is still widely read and deservedly so. One should keep it on her night stand. But, truth be told, for anyone who would write on Weil, GG is sand that one should carefully avoid building a house on.  In GG the entries are striking and well worth quoting and thinking about. But they do not reflect Weil’s own ordering of them, or anything even close, even within separate chapters, to the flow of her thought."

Recent journal issue focussed on Weil

The 2020 issue  of Philosophical Investigations - volume 43 nos 1-2 contains 13 articles on Weil.


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679205/current

New records added to Simone Weil Bibliography

Over 30 new records have been  added to the online version of the bibliography  https://simoneweil.library.ucalgary.ca

 4, 367 records are now posted and I have about 600 I am working on and continue to collect more!  I hope over the next few months to be able to add a significant portion of the currently identified records.  Please let me know of works I am missing.

The bibliography is fully keyword searchable and you can also limit your search to particular author, date, keyword, language and/or reference type

Flannery O'Connor

Over the years I have collected a number of works on Weil and Flannery O'Connor:


Beaulieu, Paul. 2000. "Simone Weil et Flannery O'Connor: Deux femmes face a l'absolu." Ecrits 100: 77-94.

Desmond, John F. 2005. "Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil - A question of sympathy." Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 8 (1):102-116.

Desmond, John F. 2010. "Flannery O'Connor, Simone Weil, Writing, and the Crucifixion." Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 13 (1):35-52. doi: 10.1353/log.0.0064.

Doering, Elizabeth Jane. 2011. "Simone Weil e il mistero della grazia: Due testimonianze sulla sua fede cristiana: Don Georges Frénaud, O.S.B. e Flannery O'Connor." In Simone Weil: Dentro e fuori la Chiesa?, edited by Paolo Farina and Domenico Marrone, 179-194. Barletta: Rotas.

Foss, Jerome C. 2019. Flannery O’Connor and the Perils of Governing by Tenderness, Politics, Literature and Film. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Brief mention of O'Connor's thoughts on Weil p. 10-11

Gordon, Sarah. 2017. "Flannery O'Connor, the Left-Wing Mystic and the German Jew: A Reconsideration." In A Political Companion to Flannery O'Connor, edited by Henry T Edmondson, 126-144. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.

Hayes, John, ed. 2017. The Selected Writings of Maurice O'Connor Drury: On Wittgenstein, Philosophy, Religion and Psychiatry. London: Bloomsbury.

Johansen, Ruthann Knechel. 2010. "Simone Weil's Ethic of the Other: Explicating Fictions through Fiction, or Looking through the Wrong End of the Telescope " CrossCurrents 60 (1):70-88. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-3881.2010.00107.x.

Johansen, Ruthann Knechel. 2012. "Transfiguring Affliction: Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor." In Dark faith: new essays on Flannery O'Connor's the violent bear it away, edited by Susan Srigley, 104-117. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.

Maxwell, Catherine Anne. 1998. "A Comparative Study of Form and Theology in the Works of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil." PhD Diss, English, University of Leeds.

Schmidt, Lawrence E., and Scott McLoughlin Marratto. 2000. "The Measure of Justice: the Language of Limit as Key to Simone Weil's Political Philosophy." ARC: The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University 28:53-66.


Additionally there are these two articles I have yet to verify:

Doering, E Jane, and Ruthann Knechel Johansen. "Prophetic Voices: Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor." Philosophical Investigations https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/phin.12262


Doering, Elizabeth Jane. 2013. "Faire Pousser des ailes contre la pensanteur: Simone Weil et l'art de Flannery O'Connor." Cahiers Simone Weil 36 (1):43-56.

Black Theology

Pick in her 2019 article "Film's Religious Algorithm." Paragraph 42 (3):387-402, notes that “the time is ripe for exploring the affinities (and misalliances) between Weil’s philosophy, black radical thought and black theology. “ (p. 391)