Tuesday, May 19, 2020

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.



Wednesday, May 6, 2020

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.