BBC broadcast of Simone Weil

Yesterday the BBC  RADIO 4 broadcast  Melvyn Bragg talking with  Beatrice Han Pile,  Stephen Plant and David Levy  about Simone Weil.  43 minutes in length.

English translation of Chenavier's work Simone Weil : l'attention au réel will be released October 2012

From  University of Notre Dame Press:

NOTRE DAME, IN, August 30, 2012—In October, the University of Notre Dame Press will publish Simone Weil: Attention to the Real by Robert Chenavier, translated by Bernard E. Doering. Originally published in French in 2009, Simone Weil: Attention to the Real leads the reader through Weil's earliest writing as a perceptive social critic to her work on spirituality and materialism, and finally to her concept of decreation, produced before her death at the age of thirty-four. "To an exceptional degree," Chenavier says, "the life of Simone Weil, her personality, her commitment, and her reflection form one single whole." Chenavier argues that Weil's vocation took on a very original form in the history of philosophical thought.


"Bernard Doering has crafted a very fine translation of Robert Chenavier's comprehensive but brief introduction to Simone Weil's philosophical project. It provides an excellent English introduction to the social philosophy of Simone Weil with due attention to her understanding of the importance of work in learning to attend to the real. Doering's translation will be of interest to both a religious and secular readership, both inside and outside the academy." —Lawrence Schmidt, University of Toronto

Read more:

http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01544

Tanis MacDonald's previously reported conference presentation on Sarah Klassen's work which was inspired by Simone has been published as:

Hunger, History, and the Shape of Awkward Questions: Reading Sarah Klassen's Simone Weil as Mennonite Text." Journal of Mennonite Studies 28 (2010): 87-102. 

It is with great sadness that I announce the death of  my dear friend, colleague and co-author of the Simone Weil Bibliography, Debra Jensen. Debra passed away on Sunday July 15, 2012. Debra was a longtime religious studies faculty member at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. We first met when Debra as a University of Calgary graduate student approached me for research assistance for her thesis work on Simone Weil. While assisting Debra, I noted the difficulty in locating material and suggested that one day it would be good to work together in creating an updated bibliography of works on Simone Weil. Years later in 2006, we finally began the project and the Simone Weil Bibliography posted online in 2011 is a enduring testament to Debra's scholarship on Weil and her dedication to enhancing access to Weilian research.

I shall miss Debra very much and dedicate my continuing work on the bibliography to her memory.

Simone "Patron Saint of 20th century anorexics"

 Francine du Plessex Gray in  "On Thin Ice." Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia. Ed. Taylor, Kate. New York: Random House, 2008. 55-68, tells the story of her own battle with anorexia nervosa in which she refers to Simone as the "Patron Saint of 20th century anorexics."

She has published two works on Simone:


 Simone Weil. Penguin Lives. New York: Viking Penguin, 2001
"Loving and Hating Simone Weil." American Scholar 70 3 (2001): 5-11. Published in the "At Large and at Small" column.

Great source for recent Italian Books on Simone

Just did a search for Simone on http://www.unilibro.it/  and located the following 2012 Italian works on her:

Gianfreda, Fausto. Il Graal. Di Simone Weil. Pazzini, 2012.


Giuliana, Kantzá. Tre donne, una domanda. Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Edith Stein. Ares, 2012.

Searching "simone weil" retrieves over 150 books!

Interested in Slovenian works on Simone Weil?

The Union Catalogue for Slovenia lists a number of books and articles on Simone.

If you are also interested in works from other countries in the region search COBISS.net