Simone Weil is an often-overlooked thinker whose insights could radically reshape contemporary discourses on religion, nature, art, ethics, work, politics, and education. This collection of essays situates Simone Weil's thought alongside prominent Continental thinkers and their philosophical concerns to show the ways in which she belongs to-but also stands outside-some of the major streams of 'Continental discourse', including phenomenology, ethics of embodied disposition and difference, and post-Marxian political thought. For the first time in a major work, intersections between the ideas of Weil and figures such as Nietzsche, Berdyaev, Foucault, Blanchot, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Chretien, Agamben, Fanon, and Ranciere are closely examined. The volume is authored by an international team of leading scholars in Weil studies and in contemporary Continental philosophy of religion more broadly. Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy is not only an unprecedented resource for Weil scholars who seek to read her in broader (and more current) philosophical terms, but also an important addition to the libraries of scholars and students of Continental philosophy and theology engaged in thinking about some of the most pressing questions of our time.
Introduction: Attending to the Outlaw A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone / Part I: Transcendental and Embodied Crossings / 1. Weil's Boat: On Becoming and Being Philip Goodchild / 2."Strangely Surprised": Maurice Blanchot on Simone Weil Kevin Hart / 3. Decreation and the Creative Act: Simone Weil and Nikolai Berdyaev Lisa Radakovich Holsberg / 4. Recreating the Creature: Weil, Agamben, Animality & the Unsaveable Beatrice Marovich / Part II: Attentive Ethics / 5. Attention and Expression: Prescriptive and Descriptive Philosophy in Weil and Merleau-Ponty Kascha Semonovitch Snavely / 6. Levinas and Weil: Ethics after Auschwitz Robert Reed / 7. Compassion, Consolation, and the Sharing of Attention Stuart Jesson / 8: Simone Weil and the Problem of Fatigue A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone / Part III: Emancipatory Politics / 9: Simone Weil's Analysis of Oppression: From La Boetie to the Neoliberal Present Lissa McCullough / 10. The Training of the Soul: Simone Weil's Dialectical Disciplinary Paradigm, a reading alongside Michel Foucault Scott B. Ritner / 11. "To love human beings in so far as they are nothing": Deracination and Pessimism in Weil Anthony Paul Smith / 12. Weil and Ranciere on Attention and Emancipation Sophie Bourgault
