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/
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:
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
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.
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.
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/
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.
A edited collection of works on Weil and Wittgenstein will be published by Routledge in November.
Between Wittgenstein and Weil edited by Jack Manzi
For list of Chapters: See https://www.routledge.com/Between-Wittgenstein-and-Weil-Comparisons-in-Philosophy-Religion-and/Manzi/p/book/9781032291093
Michail Theodosiadias has just published an open access article extensively comparing King to Weil:
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Theodosiadias, Michail. 2023. "Self-Purification and Social Dramatization; from Simone Weil to Martin Luther King Jr." Religions 14 (4):541. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14040541. Comparison of Weil and Martin Luther King Jr.
2022 issue 1 of the Dutch journal Filosofie is devoted to Weil and includes the following articles:
De Kesel, Marc. 2022. "Kijken, niet eten. Simone Weil over het schone." Filosofie (1):15-19.
De Maeyer, Lieven. 2022. "Hoezo, wachten op God? Simone Weil over verlangen, geloof en ongeloof." Filosofie (1):10-14.
Decreus, Thomas. 2022. "Weil en de zoektocht naar collectieve vrijheid." Filosofie (1):5-9.
Graste, Jacques. 2022. "Ontworteling, de ziekte van onze tijd in L'Enracinement van Simone Weil." Filosofie (1):20-24.
Willemsen, Mariëtte 2022. "Simone Weil als morele standaard in de ethiek van Iris Murdoch." Filosofie (1):25-30.
So far I have located 3 works dealing with Weil and the environment including Gerber's 2020 work "Degrowth and Critical Agrarian Studies in Journal of Peasant Studies.
To date I have identified 6 works about Weil and Souvarine including Souvarine's work on Weil.
I am continually impressed by the breadth of interest in Weil. There is a just published article by Aldis Petriceks on Weil entitled " A negative Effort: Simone Weil and the Ethics of Attention in Palliative Care in the journal Palliative & Supportive Care. In this article Petriceks notes " her writings on attention merit no less analysis from the modern palliative care clinician."
After a very long hiatus again I am back to updating the online Simone Weil Bibliography. I have over 90 new items ready and will be adding them over the next few months. Publication rate for works on Weil seems to increase every year!
Aviad Heifetz just recently informed me of the publication of his article:
Heifetz, Aviad. 2022. "‘None Enters Here Unless He is a Geometer’: Simone Weil on the Immorality of Algebra." Axiomathes. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-022-09628-0.
A search of the Simone Weil Bibliography for keyword mathematics retrieves over 25 references in addition to Aviad's work.
In a blog post in 2019, I noted Weil's influence on Serres. An article on Serres and Weil was just published in Research in Phenomenology:
Oele, Marjolein. 2022. "Dialectics of Silence for a Time of Crisis: Rethinking the Visionary Insights of Michel Serres and Simone Wei." Research in Phenomenology 52 (2):183-202. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341495.
I have also located two older articles that talk about Serres and Weil:
Serres, Michel, and François L'Yvonnet. 2014. ""Une intensité de lumière": Entretien avec Michel Serres." In Simone Weil, edited by Emmanuel Gabellieri and François L'Yvonnet, 35-39. Paris: L'Herne Editions.
Dufresne, Jacques. 2019. "Michel Serres et Simone Weil: un même combat contre la force." In L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora, edited by Hélène Laberge and Jacques Dufresne. [Ayer's Cliff, Québec] : Agora. : http://agora.qc.ca/documents/michel_serres_et_simone_weil_un_meme_combat_contre_la_force.
Recently an article in the Journal of Aging Studies includes a note about Fanon and Weil. So far I have identified four works that include comments on Franz Fanon and Weil
Colombo, Bruna. 2013. "Penser l’esclavage à partir de l’Iliade." Cahiers Simone Weil 36 (3):211-231.
Higgs, Paul, and Chris Gilleard. 2022. "Is ageism an oppression?" Journal of Aging Studies 62:1-6. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406522000548. See page 3 for a brief discussion of Weil and oppression and a comment on her influence on Franz Fanon
Smith, Anthony Paul. 2017. ""To Love Human Beings Insofar as They are Nothing": Deracination and Pessimism in Weil." In Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy, edited by A. Rebecca (Adrian Rebecca) Rozelle-Stone, 205-221. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
Stone-Mediatore, Shari. 2010. "Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us about Knowledge of Violence." Studies in Social Justice 4 (1):25-45. https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/1007/977. A number of references comparing Weil’s thoughts on violence with those of Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, John Glenn Gray and Paul Farmer
An Italian essay comparing Weil and Gentile has recently been published:
De Leo, Daniela, and Gabriella Armenise. 2021. "La missione educativa di Anna Vertua Gentile e Simone Weil: un filosofare scomodo." In Escritoras y personajes femeninos en relación, edited by Daniele Cerrato, 378-392. Madrid: Dykinson.
Comprendre : Revista Catalana de Filosofia devoted v. 22, issue 2, 2020 to Weil. This issue is entitled "Simone Weil: Arrelament, Identitat i Nacio" and is freely available on the web
Articles:
Chenavier, Robert. 2020. "L’identité. Une supposition ou une réalité?" Comprendre: Revista Catalana de Filosofia 22 (2):95-103.
Garcia-Carpintero Sanchez-Miguel, Mª Ángeles. 2020. "La mística como refugio para el Espíritu de la Verdad. Simone Weil en relación a otros filósofos y místicos." Comprendre: Revista Catalana de Filosofia 22 (2):7-27.
Herrando, Carmen. 2020. "Simone Weil. Una respuesta a la lejanía de Dios." Comprendre: Revista Catalana de Filosofia 22 (2):29-47.
Otón, Josep. 2020. "Simone Weil: història i nació." Comprendre: Revista Catalana de Filosofia 22 (2):69-78.
Quintana, Oriol. 2020. "Nombrar el problema: el desarraigo." Comprendre: Revista Catalana de Filosofia 22 (2):5-6.
Revilla, Carmen. 2020. "Simone Weil, discípula de Alain." Comprendre: Revista Catalana de Filosofia 22 (2):49-67.
Zyka, Christine. 2020. "À la racine de l'enracinement weilien - l'arbre comme symbole réel." Comprendre: Revista Catalana de Filosofia 22 (2):79-94.
In April 2022, Bloomsbury is publishing a work by Jeffrey Hanson which includes a chapter on Weil:
Hanson, Jeffrey. 2022. "Simone Weil." In Philosophies of Work in the Platonic Tradition: A History of Labor and Human Flourishing. London: Bloomsbury.
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