Today while searching for something else, I stumbled across an Italian thesis by Giulia Felici that includes extensive discussion of Weil (a search for Weil retrieves 238 hits) and includes significant content comparing Weil and Gentile.
Felici, Giulia. 2018/2019. "Fare dell'esistenza un'offerta : L'eternità tra autoctisi e decreazione." MA Thesis, Philosophy, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. http://dspace.unive.it/bitstream/handle/10579/15654/989204-1219837.pdf?sequence=2
Simone Weil Bibliography has now been updated with over 110 works for 2020. As a result of current restrictions on obtaining work through Interlibrary Loans due to COVID, I am now listing works in the bibliography that I have not physically examined. These are titles for which I can verify bibliographic information from authoritative sources. The entry for these works will include keywords if the bibliographic source notes keywords.
In the Fall of 2018, I presented a paper on Weil's enduring influence at the conference "Simone Weil, a Politics of the Good for our Age." In my presentation I noted the significant number of theses that discuss Weil's political philosophy. I just located Ida Guignatico's 2017 thesis "Oltre il realismo politico di Simone Weil" which also includes a section comparing Weil and Waltz (see section 4.4. "Simone Weil pioniera del realismo politico di Kenneth Waltz")
As Richard Bell noted in his work Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion, Weil has influenced a number of literary authors and mentions a few of them: T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, Dwight McDonald, Mary McCarthy, Iris Murdoch and Susan Sontag.
I have collected three works on the influence of Weil on McCarthy:
Daw, Sarah Harriet. 2015. "Writing Ecology in Cold War American Literature." PhD Diss, English, University of Exeter. See Chapter 4 ‘Capitalism’s Rubbish’: Socialism and “Nature” in Birds of America, pp. 190-233 which discusses Weil’s influence on Mary McCarthy
Inhoff, Marcel. 2020. "“Ladies and Gents, Ladies and Gents” – Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop and Female Autobiographies in American Postwar Literature." Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal 49 (4):405-425. Compares Mary McCarthy and Elizabeth Bishop especially in light of strong impact Weil had on both of these authors
Sumner, Gregory D. 1996. "Nicola Chiaromonte, the Politics Circle, and the Search for a Postwar “Third Camp”." In Twenty-four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy : The Writer and her Work, edited by Eve Stwetka and Margo Viscui, 7. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Very brief reference to influence of Weil on McCarthy on page 56
To locate works on Weil's influence on other authors browse the Simone Weil Bibliography by keywords (in advanced search) and select the author's name. Note if you search "influence" in the basic search you will see a listing of all works discussing her influence.
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