Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Weil's impact in Sweden

Just added a work by Marta Ronne "Decoding a Genius Mind - The French Philosopher Simone Weil and the Swedish Critic Margit Abenius" published in From Darwin to Weil: Women as Transmitters of Ideas pp. 139-157.  This work talks about how Abenius introduced Weil to Sweden.

Back in a 2012 post I noted then that I only had located 6 works published in Swedish. The online bibliography currently includes 20 works in Swedish on Weil and I have a few more I am working on.  The National Library of Sweden's catalogue is a great source to identify both Swedish books and articles on Weil.

Monday, April 13, 2020

Weil and Mauriac

In March of 2019  I spent a wonderful 3 days at the Library of Congress  reviewing the last 7 years of issues of Cahiers  to verify articles and to identify new articles from their excellent listings of recent publications.   One such article identified by these listings at the back of each volume is the 1998 work by Olivier on Weil and Mauriac.  I have listed below this work and others collected on Mauriac and Weil published since 1995.

Croc, Paul. 1995. "François Mauriac et Simone Weil."  Cahiers Simone Weil 18 (2):155-167.
Ollivier, Sophie. 1998. "Force et justice chez Simone Weil et François Mauriac."  Nouveaux cahiers François Mauriac 6:58-71.
Turai, Laura. 2007. "Mauriac et la pensée weilienne."MA, Université Catholique Pázmány Péter de Piliscsaba 
Gutbrod, Gizella. 2010. "Notes sur le rapport entre Simone Weil et François Mauriac."  Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis Sectio Romanica 36:23-38. http://francia.ektf.hu/kiadvanyok/acta_1.pdf
Gutbrod, Gizella. 2017. "Notes sur le rapport entre Simone Weil et François Mauriac."  Cahiers Simone Weil 40 (1):51-70.
Touzot, Jean. 2019. "Weil Simone 1909-1943." In Dictionnaire François Mauriac, edited by Caroline Casseville and Jean Touzot, 1163-1164. Paris: Honoré Champion.

Theses on Weil - out there but hidden!

A search on DART - Europe E-Theses Portal provides you with access to over 800,000 open access theses but a search for  Simone Weil only retrieves 19 items! This result is not very reflective of what is actually available! 

So far I have collected over 300 theses published since 1995 (vast majority were published outside the US) and over 50 percent are available open access!  288 of the discovered theses are currently listed in the online bibliography