Monday, December 28, 2020

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. 

Saturday, December 26, 2020

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.




Tuesday, December 22, 2020

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.



Thursday, December 17, 2020

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

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

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