Simone Weil Panel at the EuARe 2026 in Rome

At EuARe 2026 in Rome, Tom Sojer will speak in the panel “Simone Weil and Political Theology” with a paper entitled “The Violence of the Good? Simone Weil and the Risk of Political Theology.” His presentation argues that the strength of Weil’s political theology and its danger arise from the same source: the subordination of politics to an absolute order of truth and the good. In this way, the paper reads Weil as a thinker whose radical spiritual clarity both deepens the analysis of domination and exposes the risk that moral absolutes may harden into political coercion.

Click here to read the individual abstracts of the panel.