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The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil book cover

1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil

Edited By Deborah Casewell, Christopher Thomas Copyright 2027
522 Pages
by Routledge

522 Pages
by Routledge
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The remarkable life and work of the French philosopher and activist Simone Weil has fascinated scholars from many disciplines, with no less than Albert Camus calling her the "only great spirit of our times". Although contemporaneous with the rise of existentialism and educated alongside contemporaries such as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the creative and... Read more

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Simone Weil for our Times? Deborah Casewell and Christopher Thomas

Part I: Contextualising Weil

1. Historical Context Christine Ann Evans

2. Biography Palle Yourgrau

3. Key Texts and Reception History Eric O. Springsted

4. Philosopher, Mystic, Activist Deborah Casewell

Part II: Philosophical Sources

5. Plato Vance Morgan

6. Stoicism Warren Heiti

7. Kant Tully Rector

8. Alain (Émile Chartier) Simone Kotva

9. Marx Lawrence Blum

10. The Bhagavad-Gītā Nicolas Bommarito

Part III: Key Concepts

11. Necessity and Force Philip Goodchild

12. Beauty Christopher Thomas

13. Decreation Robert Reed

14. Attention Kathryn Lawson

15. Love Stuart Jesson

16. Affliction Eva Maria Düringer

17. God Maria Clara Bingemer

18. Labor and Work Inese Radzins

19. Metaxu Emmanuel Gabielleri (trans. Mark Sinclair, ed. Deborah Casewell)

20. The Body Cynthia R. Wallace

Part IV: Politics and Society

21. Slavery Nathaniel Grimes and Vincent Lloyd

22. Rootedness Anna Rowlands

23. Justice, Human Rights and Obligations Christopher Hamilton

24. Colonialism, Anti-fascism, and Force’s Many Faces Scott Ritner

Part V: Interactions with Religion

25. Catholicism Marie Cabaud Meaney

26. Judaism Anat Pick

27. Indic Thought Nicolas Bommarito

28. Asceticism Gavin Flood

Part 6: Conversations

29. Weil and the Existentialists Deborah Casewell

30. Weil and Moral Philosophy Sylvia Caprioglio Panizza

31. Weil and Political Philosophy Kenneth Novis

32. Weil and Phenomenology Lissa McCullough

33. Weil and Literature Hugh Roberts

34. Weil and the Search for Truth Philip Wilson

35. Weil and Feminist Thought Sophie Bourgault

36. Weil and the Creative Arts Daisy LaFarge

37. Weil and Contemporary Concerns Victor Seidler

Afterword: Simone Weil’s Path of Exile Benjamin P. Davis.

Index

Biography

Deborah Casewell is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Chester, UK, and Co-Director of the Simone Weil Research Network UK. She is the author of Monotheism and Existentialism and Eberhard Jüngel and Existence. She has published in the areas of philosophy and culture, in particular on existentialism and religion, questions of ethics and self-formation in relation to asceticism.

Christopher Thomas is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the co-founder of the AHRC-funded UK Simone Weil Research Network and has published widely on both Simone Weil and Benedict Spinoza. He is currently working on a monograph on the aesthetic philosophy of Simone Weil.

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