Friday, April 17, 2026

Wendell Berry and Simone Weil

 Luke Bratton recently published an open access  article  exploring rootedness in the work of Simone Weil and Wendell Berry.


Bratton, Luke. 2025. "An Appalachian Expression of Rootedness: Exploring Rootedness in the Writings of Simone Weil and Wendell Berry."  Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism 18 (2).https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/criterion/vol18/iss2/6/

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Giorgio Agamben

 Recently published article on  Weil's influence on Agamben  by Benjamim  Brum Neto

 Neto, Benjamim Brum. 2023. "Giorgio Agamben e Simone Weil, críticos da tradição jurídica romana / Giorgio Agamben and Simone Weil, Critics of the Roman Legal Tradition."  Revista Direita e Praxis 14 (3). doi: 10.1590/2179-8966/2022/60602. https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/revistaceaju/article/view/60722. 


The Simone Weil Bibliography  currently has 8 works on Agamben and Weil:

Maria Zambrano

 Recently two works have been published comparing Zambrano and Weil


Basili, Cristina. 2024. "Compartir el amor: las Antígonas de Simone Weil y María Zambrano."  Aurora: papeles del Seminario María Zambrano 25:6-19. https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/aurora/article/download/45839/41313/125900. 

Carenzi, Francesca. 2023. Due voci in esilio : l'Europa di María Zambrano e Simone Weil. Rome: Aracne. 



The bibliography currently lists over 20 works on Weil and Zambrano



Rosa Luxemburg

 Rita Fulco has recently published an article on Weil and Luxemburg  and the Simone Weil Bibliography includes a couple of other works about Weil and Luxemburg:


Fulco, Rita. 2024. " «Militanti di alta classe»: filosofia, politica e «vita interiore» in Simone Weil e Rosa Luxemburg."  Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica (1):5-22. doi: 10.1414/114889. 

Boitier, Daniel. 2015. "Rosa Luxemburg, Simone Weil, les collectivités passées, pressentiments d’avenir."  Cahiers Simone Weil 38 (4):341-353. 

Korsström, Tuva 2003. "Naispuolinen nero." In Osaako nainen ajatella? : Esseitä ja haastatteluja 67-98. Helsinki: Like. 

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Bibliography Update

 After a long hiatus I am back again updating the bibliography.  I have over 300 items to upload and have a few years of new items to check out!  Will attempt to keep up with this on a more regular basis.

Monday, January 29, 2024

Forthcoming Book on Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil

 Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations

This collection of articles edited by  Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingstone will be available in February.  See link below for contents:


https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/hannah-arendt-and-simone-weil-9781350344464/

Labyrinth - focusses two issues on Simone Weil

 The  two latest issues of the journal Labyrinth are focussed on Weil.

https://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/issue/view/21  -  "Social and political thought"

https://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/issue/view/22 -  "Aesthetics, ethics and spirituality"


Articles are freely available.