Thursday, February 9, 2023

Issue devoted to Weil

 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. 

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Environmental Studies and Weil

 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.



Boris Souvarine

 To date I have identified 6 works about Weil and Souvarine including Souvarine's work on Weil.  

Palliative care

 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."

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/palliative-and-supportive-care/article/negative-effort-simone-weil-and-the-ethics-of-attention-in-palliative-care/28EA12FD59600A735FCB269D69CDD128

Bibliography update

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!

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Weil and mathematics

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. 

Thursday, July 7, 2022

Michel Serres and Weil

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.