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Simone Weil
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| Summary | Simone Weil (1909–1943) was a French philosopher and mystic whose work addresses ethics, political theory, metaphysics, and theology. Trained in philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, she combined classical philosophical inquiry with spiritual reflection, placing special emphasis on love, attention, affliction, and the renunciation of the ego. Influenced by Plato, Descartes, Kant and Christian mysticism, Weil developed a distinctive approach to social criticism, the concept of oppression, and the experience of divine grace. Her thought resists systematic classification and is often studied in relation to political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and moral psychology. |
| Key works | Weil’s most influential work, Weil 1987 (first published 1949), is a wide-ranging reflection on cultural dislocation, civic obligation, and political and spiritual renewal. Weil 1963 (first published 1947), compiled posthumously from her wartime notebooks, presents her metaphysical and mystical ideas concerning necessity, decreation, and the interplay between gravity and grace. Weil 1951 gathers letters and essays in which she articulates her theology of attention, affliction, and divine love. Weil 1988 collects her political writings, including critical reflections on labor, bureaucracy, and Marxism. The Iliad, or the Poem of Force (written in 1940) is a concise and powerful analysis of violence and the dehumanizing effects of war. Weil 1957 develops her view that certain Christian truths were anticipated in Greek literature and philosophy. Among her lesser-known but important writings are Weil 1987 and Weil 1978, which document her early engagement with scientific method, ethics, and classical philosophy. |
| Introductions | Useful introductions to Weil’s thought include Weil 1986 edited by Sian Miles and Pétrement 1997. Further guides can be found in Zaretsky 2021, Mclellan 1992, and Eric Springsted’s various commentaries: Springsted 1989, Springsted 2024, Springsted & Collins 2023, Allen & Springsted 1994. |
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- Moral significance in artificial systems: if not consciousness, then what?François Kammerer - manuscriptMany think AIs would be morally significant if and only if they are phenomenally conscious in certain ways. This sentientist conception has been challenged, and alternative views emerged, on which agency, or the possession of desires, are sufficient for AI moral significance, even without consciousness. I argue that these alternative views face serious problems. They should probably be ruled out. I diagnose the mistake we made when formulating these views – a process I call “analytical drift”. I make methodological suggestions (...)
- Questioning Greece with Heidegger and Simone Weil, by Maria Villela-Petit.Emile Alexandrov - forthcoming - Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion:1-5.
- Simone Weil’s Ethics of Love and Film Form.Doga Col - forthcoming - Studies in Christian Ethics.This paper argues that film form itself embodies a kind of decreation, a self-effacing process in which the ego retreats, leaving the artwork open to the world. Drawing on Simone Weil’s ethics and aesthetics, rooted deeply in Christian mysticism, film is proposed as an art form uniquely capable of depicting a shared understanding of love. According to Weil, authentic love emerges from radical attention, empathy for suffering, and the mediation of metaxu, concepts that films are structurally suited to express. Film (...)
- Simon Weil : La pensée comme résistance – Rythme et cadence.Nadia Taïbi - forthcoming - Rhuthmos.Ce texte est tiré de la thèse de doctorat de Nadia Taïbi, présentée à l'Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, le 29 octobre 2007, sous la direction de Jean-Jacques Wunenburger : L'expérience ouvrière de Simone Weil. La philosophie au travail, pp. 28-33. N'ayant pas pu joindre Nadia Taïbi pour lui demander son autorisation, nous espérons qu'elle ne nous en tiendra pas rigueur. 1.1.2. La pensée comme résistance L'expérience de la vie d'usine telle que Simone Weil la traduit nous paraît révéler ce (...)
- Rethinking Political Crisis and Collapse: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil.Antonio Calcagno & Mark Yenson (eds.) - 2026 - London: Bloomsbury Academic.Responses, both critical and constructive, to changing realities in modern politics and society. -/- In gathering these essays, Antonio Calcagno and Mark Yenson have chosen the conceptual lens of crisis and collapse, not in the spirit of lamenting or decrying the death of a once-enjoyed, but now lost, state of affairs. Rather, they seek to understand what the concepts of crisis and collapse mean, how they are deployed in various situations, and how they are used to explain shifts in politics (...)Remove from this listExport citation
Bookmark - Simone Weil’s Communication Ethics.Doga Col - 2026 - Journal of Communication and Social Studies 6 (1):1-18.Simone Weil describes love as radical attention that suspends egoistic concerns to pursue solely the good of another. Although contemporary communication ethics emphasizes responsiveness and dialogue, it seldom addresses how individuals can entirely overcome self-interest to transparently recognize the other's need. This article proposes that Weil’s concepts (particularly attention, décréation, and metaxu) fill that theoretical gap. Grounding Weil’s ethics in Plato and mysticism, the discussion places her ideas in dialogue with current communication ethics, demonstrating their practical relevance. Weil’s notion of (...)
- An Institution of Waiting: Capital Punishment in Weil and Camus.John V. Garner - 2026 - In Antonio Calcagno & Mark Yenson, Rethinking Political Crisis and Collapse: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. London: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 127-148.This paper addresses the apparent tension between Albert Camus’s abolitionist critique of capital punishment and Simone Weil’s seemingly ambiguous remarks on the topic. I argue that Weil’s account of attention, consent, and free depersonalization definitively demands the suspension of the death penalty. By distinguishing natural power—expressed in domination, contempt, and bureaucratic penal systems—from supernatural justice—expressed through attention and the preservation of free consent—I argue that Weil treats abolition not as a precondition for justice but as a necessary consequence of the (...)
- Between nature and mind: Simone Weil's intermediaries upon consideration of Charles Taylor's concept of ‘interspace’.Eric O. Springsted - 2026 - Philosophical Investigations 49 (2):155-169.Simone Weil's concept of the metaxu, taken from Plato's Philebus, is a well‐recognised and central feature of her thinking. However, it has not been sufficiently examined, especially as it is part of Weil's larger philosophical project. This essay seeks to provide new perspective on the concept by using Charles Taylor's concept of ‘interspace’ as a way of focussing it. Like Taylor, Weil wants to talk about an ‘interspace’ where concepts are part of ‘a third objectivity’, a logical space where mind (...)
- Susan Taubes: Philosophische Schriften.J. Steizinger & Thomas Macho (eds.) - 2026 - Paderborn: Brill | Fink. Translated by Rüdiger Hentschel & Konrad Honsel.Der zweite Band der Edition der Schriften von Susan Taubes umfasst ihre 1956 abgeschlossene, bisher unveröffentlichte Dissertation "Der abwesende Gott. Eine Studie über Simone Weil" sowie ihre Aufsätze und Rezensionen, die zwischen 1951 und 1959 in renommierten Zeitschriften wie The Journal of Religion oder The Review of Metaphysics erschienen sind. -/- Ausgehend von den Grundlinien der Moderne untersucht Susan Taubes in ihren philosophischen Schriften Gnosis und Tragödie als kulturgeschichtliche Konstellationen und spürt verschwiegene Verbindungen zwischen jüdischer Erfahrung und deutscher Philosophie auf. (...)
- De la mystique à la politique, ou inversement? Sur Charles Péguy et Simone Weil.Denis Bertrand, Bruno Gelas & Jean-Claude Giroud - 2025 - Semiotica 2025 (265):211-229.Résumé L’étude repose sur le contraste entre l’affirmation de Péguy: « Tout commence en mystique et finit en politique », et le parcours de Weil où tout commence par la politique et finit par la mystique. Double sens aspectuel éclairant réciproquement les deux domaines. Péguy: la mystique est un idéal fondateur que la politique dégrade. Deux perspectives s’ouvrent. (1) Le rejet du narratif. Côté actantiel, la transcendance mystique conduit à l’exclusion du politique. Côté narrativité, l’événement inaugural (mystique) fonde la critique (...)
- Simone Weil and Indo-Tibetan Thought.Nicolas Bommarito - 2025 - In Simone Weil, Dharma and Detachment. Routledge.An introduction to key concepts in Simone Weil's work and the classical Indian and Tibetan texts she was engaged with.
- Simone Weil on "Force" and the Possibilities of Human Freedom.Alexandra Cain & James Kent - 2025 - Philosophy Today 69 (4):649-664.In this article we argue that Simone Weil offers an account of human freedom that—if and when it emerges—emerges from the human being’s recognition of, and appropriate response to, the impossibility of eliminating “force.” While other commentators have noted that for Weil, our freedom derives from consenting spontaneously to that which necessity obligates, we go further by showing the ways in which our responses to force are historically inscribed by the trauma of previous responses, and the ways this impedes our (...)
- Seres humanos, máquinas y sufrimiento: una prospectiva desde Simone Weil.Sophie Grimaldi D'Esdra - 2025 - Pensamiento 81 (313):207-218.La identidad del ser humano está cuestionada por una sociedad tecnológica que pone en jaque los fundamentos de la antropología cristiana. El artículo expone el pensamiento de Simone Weil sobre la dominación de la máquina y el sufrimiento del obrero en la fábrica del siglo XX. Se muestran los puntos de unión que tiene el análisis de la filósofa con la lógica tecnológica actual. El artículo incide en el punto de inflexión que está en la renuncia del ser humano a (...)
- Simone Weil on Living in an Afflicted World.Paula Nicole Eugenio - 2025 - Kritike 18 (4):96-108.
- Simone Weil ou la résistance « sur plans multiples ».Emmanuel Gabellieri - 2025 - Cités 102 (2):67-78.
- Who is ‘society’ in the societal impact debate? – A critical discussion of policies of closure.Andrew G. Gibson & Søren S. E. Bengtsen - 2025 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 57 (2):98-111.Discussions about the role of universities have long been framed in terms of questions of what is good for the public, as well as how and whether higher education serves that good. Today, the language of ‘societal impact’ has become an accepted way for policymakers to frame the matter, but just who is included in the underlying definition of society that this formulation presupposes? In this paper, we consider how ‘society’ has been constructed in discussions of the societal impact of (...)
- Explorando la cercanía entre Simone Weil y el existencialismo.Francisca Hill - 2025 - Resonancias Revista de Filosofía 19:7-16.Simone Weil es una de las figuras más enigmáticas en el pensamiento del siglo XX en Francia. La variedad de sus trabajos y la evolución de su pensamiento hacen difícil catalogarla en una sola corriente, pero no deja de llamar la atención la posible cercanía que pudiese guardar con el pensamiento popular de la época: el existencialismo. Simone de Beauvoir expresó su admiración por la figura de Weil, pero no dejó de reconocer el abismo que las separaba. ¿Es acaso el (...)
- La idea de cambio en la filosofía temprana de Simone Weil.Juan Manuel Ruiz Jiménez - 2025 - Areté. Revista de Filosofía 37 (1):7-34.Teniendo en cuenta que toda la obra de Simone Weil está atravesada por hondas reflexiones sobre el tema del tiempo, por cuanto para ella se trató siempre de la instancia ontológica y cognitiva a partir de la cual cobra sentido el sentimiento de la realidad humana, en el presente artículo nos ocuparemos de esclarecer el concepto de cambio, el cual fue determinante en su filosofía temprana, y que, creemos, dilucida las categorías temporales de la época de madurez de esta filósofa. (...)
- Deepfakes, Simone Weil, and the concept of reading.Steven R. Kraaijeveld - 2025 - AI and Society 40 (4):2325-2327.
- Uprootedness in the Digital Space and Solipsism: A Critical Sketch.Allister Lee - 2025 - The Philosophical Salon.The contemporary subject is occupied by a profound paradox where the technology advertised as a cure to loneliness has become a force that alienates one from the existential need to belong to a community. Drawing on the works of Simone Weil and Byung-Chul Han, this short essay critically sketches out how digitalisation simultaneously undermines the conditions to experience belonging and togetherness in order to explain alienation of the contemporary subject, and how it develops into a new digital form of solipsism (...)
- Simone Weil and Wittgenstein on Character.Nimrod Matan - 2025 - In Isabel G. Gamero, Amadeusz Just & Jasmin Trächtler, Feminist Philosophy — Language, Knowledge, And Politics. Contributions of the Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. Band / Vol. XXXI. Kirchberg-am-Wechsel: pp. 399-406.Simone Weil’s discussion of the concept of character, as that which conditions our reactions, divorces it from the domain of choice and will, presenting it as belonging to the domain of world rather than as a psychological concept. Stemming from Kant’s discussion of character, character can be conceived, following Weil, as tantamount to the world of the person as a whole rather than to the person’s disposition to react. Character is unknowable: although we cannot but attribute character to people, we (...)
- Simone Weil - O gândire dedicată celuilalt.Alexandru Medesan - 2025 - Revista de Filosofie 72 (6):913-930.This paper examines Simone Weil’s philosophy as an original, implicitly phenomenological project centered on attention, understood as a self-emptying openness to reality and to others. Drawing on Husserl’s phenomenological reduction, Heidegger's concept of “care”, Merleau-Ponty’s operative intentionality, and Levinas’ primacy of the ethical relation, the study argues that Weil brackets not the world but the self, transforming phenomenological intentionality into an embodied, emotional, and spiritual readiness to encounter the other and God.
- Decreația și forța - Metafizica Simonei Weil.Alexandru Medesan - 2025 - Studii de Istorie a Filosofiei Universale 33:211-227.This paper examines Simone Weil’s metaphysical concept of decreation, exploring its roots in Platonic and Christian thought and its implications for the relationship between God, creation, and the self. By analyzing Weil’s understanding of divine withdrawal, self-emptying, and attention, the study highlights how decreation redefines the human vocation as a movement of radical openness and consent to transcendence. The argument situates Weil’s metaphysics within broader philosophical and theological debates, showing how her vision challenges traditional notions of being, grace, and freedom.
- Simon Weil and Contradiction.Mostafa Mousavi-Azam - 2025 - Journal of Philosophical Investigations 19 (50):135-152.Philosophers' confrontation with contradiction is so fundamental and important that it has been a trend in the history of philosophy. Simone Weil is one of the philosophers who has a different view on the problem of contradiction. The main issue of this research is the concept of contradiction in Simon Weil's thought and explaining its role in her thought system. We can find three meanings of contradiction in Simon Way's thought. We can find three meanings of contradiction in Simon Weil's (...)
- La estética de Simone Weil: belleza, atención y compromiso.Raquel Cascales Tornel - 2025 - Pensamiento 81 (314):395-410.El pensamiento de Simone Weil ha ido ganando reconocimiento dentro de la filosofía contemporánea. Sin embargo, aunque su contribución al pensamiento político ha sido ampliamente estudiada, su trabajo en el ámbito de la estética ha recibido poca atención, a pesar de ser un eje vertebrador de su obra. Con el fin de destacar la relevancia de este aspecto, este artículo propone tres elementos fundamentales de su concepción estética. En primer lugar, se analiza su noción de belleza, que supone una revisión (...)
- Dharma and Detachment.Simone Weil - 2025 - Routledge.Edited and introduced by Nicolas Bommarito, the anthology contains writings drawn from Weil's extensive Notebooks. The extracts show how she moves seamlessly between Plato, Catholicism, mathematics, the Bhagavad-Gītā, and Buddhism, engaging with texts in the original Sanskrit. To help the reader gain a full insight into Weil's thought, the volume also includes – along with Weil's own writings – key passages from the classical texts that inspired her, especially the Bhagavad-Gītā and the Upanishads. -/- In addition to a helpful Introduction (...)
- La froide étreinte de la force חיבוקו הקר של הכוח.Simone Weil & Micha Danziger (eds.) - 2025 - Jerusalem, Berlin: Blima Books. Translated by Shiran Beck & Daniel Rosenberg.אסופת מאמרים זו מביאה את מחשבותיה של וייל על מושג הכוח ועל מקומו ביחסים בין בני אדם. במבט רב־תחומי, המשלב רעיונות פילוסופיים, אסתטיים וספרותיים, היא מפרשת את מאורעות זמנה כמאבק בין יסודות מוסריים על־היסטוריים. במלחמה נגד האידיאולוגיות האירופיות היא רואה התגלמות של המאבק ברע, המעמיד בסכנה אף את נפשם של אלה הנשבעים להשמידו. מול יצר הכיבוש והאלימות, כפי שהוא מגולם בגיבורי מלחמת טרויה ובכיבושי האימפריה הרומית, היא מציבה חזון של אחדות והרמוניה, בהשראת הציוויליזציה של דרום צרפת בימי הביניים. מאמרים אלה (...)
- Platonic Revivalists? The Cases of Simone Weil and Leo Strauss.Robert A. Ballingall - 2024 - In David Carter, Rachel Foxley & Liz Sawyer, Brill’s Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought. Leiden: BRILL. pp. 74–103.Plato wrote dramas, not treatises, and he did not limit his works to rationalistic discourse. Many of them articulate a strange and enduring mythology whose ultimate purpose is famously enigmatic. This chapter examines the controversial readings of two twentieth-century thinkers who place these literary elements at the centre of their interpretations. Simone Weil and Leo Strauss are seldom discussed in the same context, but their approaches to Plato bear surprising resemblances. These figures shared a hope that the philosophic life according (...)
- From Inattentiveness Towards Moral Failures: Acknowledging Simone Weil in Iris Murdoch’s Literary Writings.Camille Braune - 2024 - Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 25 (2):47-73.Simone Weil's ideas proved fundamental for Iris Murdoch, opening up a difficult path of thought for one rooted in the British philosophical tradition in the 1950s (Sim 1985, Bok 2005, Lovibond 2011a, Panizza 2022a, Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman 2022). Grasping the Weilian-inspired moral theory of attention sketched by Iris Murdoch is a prerequisite for comprehending the development of her moral ideas (Panizza 2015, Broackes 2012) and the form they may take in her literary writings (Griffin 1993, Morgan 2006). This paper (...)
- The Philosopher at the Gate of the Word: A Study of Simone Weil’s Transformative Literature.Silvia Caprioglio Panizza & Philip Wilson - 2024 - In Garry L. Hagberg, Fictional Worlds and the Political Imagination. Cham: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 343-363.Can literature help us in a time of crisis? Yes, in many and unexpected ways, as Simone Weil’s literary work shows. Reading Weil’s unfinished tragedy Venice Saved in the context of her poetry, philosophy and politics, we argue that it is an example of literary work that can engender transformation, for three reasons: its presentation and encouragement of attention to beauty; its tragic tension, forcing a deeper vision of the world; and its use of the poetic word. These elements, we (...)
- Some aspects of Pólemos and catastrophe according to Ernst Jünger and Simone Weil.Antonio Dall'Igna - 2024 - Aisthesis: Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi Dell’Estetico 16 (2):29-39.The present paper analyses the relationship between the figures of the Arbeiter and the Krieger, described by Ernst Jünger, and their metaphysical context, that is, the becoming in which the catastrophe of war takes place. The analysis is conducted through a theoretical comparison with Simone Weil’s thought, in which war is considered as an extreme case of malheur, i.e., the manifestation of divinity as pure grace devoid of power. Two useful paradigms are thus outlined to explain the condition of the (...)
- Primal Screams: The Infantile Cry in Simone Weil.Elinore Darzi - 2024 - Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 25 (2):93-110.The main thesis of this essay is that non-linguistic infantile cries towards the nondefinable constitute, for Simone Weil, the essence of the human. The author begins by surveying, for the first time, Weil’s depiction of the infant’s cry as a scream of an infinite desire towards nothing definite. In the second part, in which the author analyzes the infantile cry introduced in Weil’s later writings this desire, it will be presented as fundamental to being. The infantile cry expresses mutely a (...)
- O diário de uma favelada e o decolonialismo: Carolina Maria de Jesus, Michel Foucault e Simone Weil.Marcos A. Ferreira - 2024 - Somanlu Revista de Estudos Amazônicos 24 (1):54-69.O presente trabalho busca traçar um diálogo entre a filosofia e a literatura, visando uma abordagem interdisciplinar acerca da questão do decolonialismo, tendo como material primário a obra O diário de uma favelada (1960), da escritora brasileira Carolina Maria de Jesus. Buscamos abordar a obra tendo como horizonte interpretativo o pensamento do filósofo Michel Foucault com a noção de escrita de si, sendo uma das ferramentas utilizadas para o cuidado de si, como o concebe em sua Hermenêutica do sujeito (2010). (...)
- La réception surréaliste de Simone Weil. Simone Weil et Georges Bataille.Jean-Marc Ghitti - 2024 - Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 25 (2):5-24.Despite her hostility to surrealism, Simone Weil received a paradoxical reception in the work and thought of Georges Bataille. From this point onwards she has attracted the interest of psychoanalysis up to the present day. After their meeting and exchanges at the beginning of the 1930s, Bataille wrote a novel in which he created a portrait of Simone Weil and asks, through her, questions which served to develop and enrich the next stages of his theoretical constructions. This pathway to progress (...)
- Travail et attention dans la philosophie de Simone Weil.Pierre Gillouard - 2024 - Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 156 (3):299-314.L’article s’attache, dans son ensemble, à démontrer en quoi l’attention – la faculté de faire le vide dans sa pensée pour accueillir pleinement en soi l’objet ou l’être auquel on prête attention – est la vertu essentielle du travail pour Simone Weil. Plus précisément, il démontre le lien de corrélation entre la pratique de l’attention discursive – celle qui s’exerce dans le raisonnement – et la pratique de l’attention intuitive – celle qui s’exerce dans l’attention à autrui qui est ici (...)
- The Rarest and Purest Form of Generosity: Simone Weil’s Attention and Medical Practice.Mark Kissler - 2024 - Journal of Medical Humanities 45 (4):391-402.Attention is essential to the practice of medicine. It is required for expert and timely diagnoses and treatments, is implicated in the techniques and practices oriented toward healing, and enlivens the interpersonal dimensions of care. Attention enables witnessing, presence, compassion, and discernment. The French philosopher and activist Simone Weil (1909–1943) developed one of the most original and important descriptions of attention in the last century. For Weil, attention is not an attitude of strained focus but of perceptive waiting that leads (...)
- Tyranny without a tyrant: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on bureaucracy.Marina Lademacher - 2024 - In Kathryn Lawson & Joshua Livingstone, Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: unprecedented conversations. London: Bloomsbury Academic.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Ecological ethics and the philosophy of Simone Weil: decreation for the Anthropocene.Kathryn Lawson - 2024 - New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.This book places the philosophy of Simone Weil into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns in the Anthropocene. The book offers a systematic interpretation of Simone Weil, making her ethical philosophy more accessible to non-Weil scholars. Weil's work has been influential in many fields, including politically and theologically-based critiques of social inequalities and suffering, but rarely linked to ecology. Kathryn Lawson argues that Weil's work can be understood as offering a coherent approach with potentially widespread appeal applicable to our ethical relations (...)
- Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: unprecedented conversations.Kathryn Lawson & Joshua Livingstone (eds.) - 2024 - London: Bloomsbury Academic.Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil were two of the most compelling political thinkers of the 20th century who, despite having similar life-experiences, developed radically distinct political philosophies. This unique dialogue between the writings of Arendt and Weil highlights Arendt's secular humanism, her emphasis on heroic action, and her rejection of the moral approach to politics, contrasted starkly with Weil's religious approach, her faith in the power of divine Goodness, and her other-centric ethic of suffering and affliction. The writings here respect (...)
- Simone Weil and the need for obedience: political, religious, and ethical dimensions.Sasha Lawson-Frost - 2024 - Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 25 (2):111-135.This essay explores the development of Simone Weil's conception of obedience across religious, political, and ethical contexts. By bringing together these strands of Weil's thought, it aims to illuminate some important connections in her treatment of obedience throughout these diverse topics. The author argues that Weil's political treatment of obedience is deeply influenced by ideas in Christian thought, and that this account is situated within an understanding of obedience in the natural world which is itself ethically loaded. Hence it is (...)
- A Um estado de graça: a condição da atenção em Simone Weil.Bárbara Romeika Rodrigues Marques - 2024 - Horizonte 22 (67):216608-216608.Com a filosofia de Simone Weil, este artigo propõe discutir a perspectiva filosófica da atenção. Para tal, argumenta que a condição da atenção demanda e sustenta um estado de graça que, ao dispor à consciência o sentimento de participação na beleza da natureza, vincula ser e mundo. Debate, a partir da perspectiva weiliana, um princípio intermediador entre a contemplação das formas da natureza, a afeição ao sagrado e o engajamento com a alteridade como condição da atenção. Busca-se inferir que a (...)
- La atención a lo repetitivo en Simone Weil: una defensa de Prometeo, el Cristo de Esquilo.María de las Mercedes López Mateo - 2024 - Isegoría 71:1528.El presente artículo tiene por objeto analizar la rigurosidad y el propósito de la lectura y recepción que la filósofa francesa Simone Weil realizó de la tragedia Prometeo encadenado atribuida a Esquilo. Para ello, su comprensión de Prometeo como representación griega de Cristo avant-la-lettre será estudiada desde la nueva politización y democratización de los Estudios Clásicos, esto es, el marco teórico de los Classical Reception Studies: sus antecedentes en tanto que recepciones intermedias, su desglosamiento como entidad autónoma y, por último, (...)
- “God does not algebra”: Simone Weil’s search for a supernatural reformulation of mathematics.Roberto Paura - 2024 - Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 25 (2):160-176.The article offers an analysis of Simone Weil's philosophy of mathematics. Weil's reflection starts from a critique of Bourbaki's programme, led by her brother André: the "mechanical attention" Bourbaki considered an advantage of their treatment of mathematics was for her responsible for the incomprehensibility of modern algebra, and even a cause of alien-ation and social oppression. On the contrary, she developed her pivotal concept of 'atten-tion' with the aim of approaching mathematical problems in order to make "progress in another more (...)
- Marx e o processo revolucionário em Hannah Arendt e em Simone Weil.Eduardo Lucas Alves Rodrigues - 2024 - Aufklärung 11 (2):139-150.Our article aims to present a comparative study on the thoughts of two of the Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, specifically, about the reflections of this revolutionary project by Marx. In order to achieve this goal, we will make a specific cut in one of the works of each of these philosophers. In Hannah Arendt we will follow the philosopher's thinking, specifically in her book On Revolution (1963) in the chapters The Social Question and The Revolutionary Tradition and Its Lost (...)
- Simone Weil: a very short introduction.A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone - 2024 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.A concise and lively overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. The breadth, poignancy, and prescience of Weil's philosophy has much to offer us in our times of personal, communal, political, and environmental crises.
- Simone Weil: A Very Short Introduction.Rebecca Rozelle-Stone - 2024 - Oxford University Press.
- O Impessoal, o Eterno e a Obrigação Ética Em Simone Weil.Castor Bartolomé Ruiz & Ana Lúcia Guterres Dias - 2024 - Thaumàzein - Rivista di Filosofia 16 (32):79-93.A noção de pessoa, para Simone Weil, passa por uma certa desconstrução e releitura que a filósofa realiza a partir da categoria do impessoal. Abordaremos inicialmente os conceitos de direito e obrigação, refletindo sobre as necessidades da alma pensadas por Weil, em que a obrigação abre o ser humano para o impessoal da pessoa, que por sua vez é conexo com o sentido do eterno e do sagrado. Neste escrito pretende-se resgatar alguns traços desta reflexão e destacar a relação entre (...)
- Simone Weil et les dimensions mystiques de la nourriture.Nejra Salihbegovic - 2024 - Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 25 (2):136-159.This article aims to examine the mystical meanings of food in the texts Gravity and Grace, Waiting for God, and First and Last Notebooks by the French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943). The main questions posed over the course of this study are as follows: How does Weil interpret food in her mystical texts? What relationship do her ideas have with her context of the Second World War, with Judaism, with her body? Are biomedical understandings of behavior, such as anorexia nervosa, (...)
- Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein: ‘Philosophy as work on oneself’.Eric O. Springsted - 2024 - Philosophical Investigations 48 (1):3-22.For many years Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein have been placed side by side. Little of that work has tried to explicitly compare the two. Direct comparisons can, however, be made between Weil and Wittgenstein, which can show that the ways they approached philosophy shared numerous traits and ideas. Both thinkers rejected philosophical systems, both admitted that serious philosophical work did not try to reject all contradictions internal to it, and, in fact, both sought to make facing contradictions and seeming (...)
- A Life in Letters.Simone Weil - 2024 - London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Edited by Robert Chenavier, André A. Devaux, Marie-Noëlle Chenavier-Jullien, Annette Devaux, Olivier Rey & Nicholas Elliott.A Life in Letters is an English translation of philosopher Simone Weil's letters to her parents and brother, mathematician André Weil. The letters, pulled from the original French correspondence, provide a road map to Weil's life and an unparalleled view into Weil's work and her relationship with the three people who had the greatest impact on her.
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