I am constantly amazed at the number of people that have been influenced by Weil.
The late philosopher Michel Serres, member of the French Academy and philosophy professor at Stanford left mathematics to study philosophy after reading Gravity and Grace.
See: https://news.stanford.edu/2019/06/19/renowned-french-philosopher-michel-serres-dies-88/
Debra Jensen and I have worked together on the compilation of an international bibliography of critical works on Simone Weil. Currently over 5,000 titles are listed online as Simone Weil Bibliography (https://simoneweil.library.ucalgary.ca/) . With Debra's untimely death in July 2012, the English language material will no longer be annotated, but I will continue to post updates to the bibliography and to this blog.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Simone Weil's papers
In the last week I have received two inquiries about how to locate the original of Weil's writings. So I thought I would try to post this more widely.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in their Historical Studies - Social Science Library located in Princeton has a microfilm copy:
Their catalogue https://library.ias.edu/hs lists the following:
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https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc58821s
Note you need to email the BnF if you are interested in making arrangement to view her papers.