Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Proceedings of 2010 Conference "Simone Weil. La citta terrena e celeste" have been published

Guadagnin, Laura, ed. Simone Weil e l'amore per la città.  Venezia terrena e celeste. Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2011.  Contents

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Francis of Assisi

The papers presented at the conference  " "Per un nuova Umanesimo: Simone Weil, San Francesco e la filosofia contemporanea", April 30, 2011 have been published  (Marianelli, Massimiliano, ed. Per un nuovo umanesimo: Francesco d'Assisi e Simone Weil. Rome: CNx, 2012).

Articles in this collection as well as other articles I have collected  to date on Weil and Assisi include:

Bingemer, Maria Clara. "Francesco d’Assisi e Simone Weil: Umanesimo cristiano e mistica della povertà." Per un nuovo umanesimo: Francesco d'Assisi e Simone Weil. Ed. Marianelli, Massimiliano. Vol. 2. Quaderni di Agorà-Stromata. Rome: CNx, 2012. 39-64.

Gabellieri, Emmanuel. "Dall’Inno ai Filippesi al Cantico di Frate Sole: Simone Weil tra Paolo e Francesco." Per un nuovo umanesimo: Francesco d'Assisi e Simone Weil. Ed. Marianelli, Massimiliano. Vol. 2. Quaderni di Agorà-Stromata. Rome: CNx, 2012. 81-94.

Innocenzi, A. Rita. Simone Weil e Francesco d'Assisi. Anarchici o mistici? Rome: Nuova Cultura, 2009.

"Simone Weil. Mystère et lumière"



Approches in the January 2012 issue features articles on Simone Weil:

Ballanfat, Marc. "« Arjuna, c’est moi »."
Castel-Bouchouchi, Anissa. "La Grèce antique : un enracinement pour notre pensée."
Courtine, Denamy Sylvie. "L’imitatio Christi ou le « péché d’envie » de Simone Weil."
David, Pascal. "Hors de soi, l’arrachement du désir."
de Lussy, Florence. "Simone Weil, fille d'Alain"
Delaporte, Florence. "Simone Weil et la dévoration : un désir d’amour sans chair et sans autre." 148
Lewinson, Ewa. "Le corps de Simone." Approches 148  (2012).
Samama, Guy. "Mystère Simone – Miss ter Simone."
Samama, Guy, and Maria Villela-Petit. "Questions posées."

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Peter Winch

The latest issue of Philosophical Investigations has an article by  David Cockburn "In the Beginning Was the Deed" 36. 4 (2013): 303-19 which discusses Winch's writings on Weil.   Currently in the bibliography I have three other works which touch on Winch's  treatment of  Weil:

Bell, Richard H. Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion. Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers. Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998.

Lassman, Peter. "Politics and 'The Fragility of the Ethico-Cultural'." History of the Human Sciences 13 1 (2000): 125-39.

Lyas, Colin. ""The Interval of Hesitation": Peter Winch's Simone Weil." Peter Winch. Teddington: Acumen, 1999. 155-80.


Tuesday, October 8, 2013

2013 Italian thesis on Weil available on the web

Maria Giovanna Ziccardi's very recent dissertation, "Soggetto, diritto, lavoro, nel pensiero di Simone Weil (1909-1943)."( University of Trento)  mentions Weil over 1100 times!

2012 thesis on with significant content on Simone

Pryor, Adam. "The God Who Lives: An Examination of the Emergence of Life and the Doctrine of God." Diss. Graduate Theological Union, 2012

See especially, 7.2 "Simone Weil's Crucial Themes" 306-333

Friday, October 4, 2013

Simone Weil and the Bhagavadgita



Just tripped across a 1969 thesis on Simone Weil  and the Gita by Norman Hendricks. It is freely available from McMaster University digital commons:   An Explication of the Writings on the Bhagvad Gītā
in the Published Works of Simone Weil