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.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
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
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
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Porete and Weil
My thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by COVID -19. While I am sheltering in place, I will try to use this time to work on the bibliography.
Today, I located this reference to a work comparing Weil and Marguerite Porete:
A search on the Simone Weil Bibliography online retrieves a further 6 references on this topic.
Today, I located this reference to a work comparing Weil and Marguerite Porete:
Nogueira, Maria Simone Marinho. 2019. "Aniquilamento e descriação: uma aproximação entre Marguerite Porete e Simone Weil." Trans/Form/Ação 42:193-216. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-3173.2019.v42esp.11.p193
Friday, February 7, 2020
George Steiner
The past week saw the passing of influential literary critic George Steiner. I have collected a number of articles about Steiner and Weil as well as works by Steiner on Weil.
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Simone Weil's influence on Murdoch - further update
The Simone Weil Bibliography now contains 64 works on Weil and Murdoch. Not yet included in this list are the articles on Weil and Murdoch published in Iris Murdoch Review v. 8, 2018 full issue is available on the web - https://d3mcbia3evjswv.cloudfront.net/files/IMR8%20final%20interior.pdf?f64VNLiqBJzY6omMCtWD7uAallFDa00h
Monday, February 3, 2020
Gravity and Grace - index to location of quotations in Weil's notebooks
The American Weil Society has posted this helpful guide compiled by Martin Andic and edited by Eric Springsted.
Notebook Sources for Gravity and Grace Quotations
Also available here: https://docslib.org/notebook-sources-for-gravity-and-grace-quotations
In his introduction Springsted highlights the issue of the loss of Weil's original context in Gustav Thibon's compilation of her papers and notebooks:
--> "Yet, GG is still widely read and deservedly so. One should keep it on her night stand. But, truth be told, for anyone who would write on Weil, GG is sand that one should carefully avoid building a house on. In GG the entries are striking and well worth quoting and thinking about. But they do not reflect Weil’s own ordering of them, or anything even close, even within separate chapters, to the flow of her thought."
Notebook Sources for Gravity and Grace Quotations
Also available here: https://docslib.org/notebook-sources-for-gravity-and-grace-quotations
In his introduction Springsted highlights the issue of the loss of Weil's original context in Gustav Thibon's compilation of her papers and notebooks:
--> "Yet, GG is still widely read and deservedly so. One should keep it on her night stand. But, truth be told, for anyone who would write on Weil, GG is sand that one should carefully avoid building a house on. In GG the entries are striking and well worth quoting and thinking about. But they do not reflect Weil’s own ordering of them, or anything even close, even within separate chapters, to the flow of her thought."
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