Conference “the Simone Weil for our Times” organised by the UK Simone Weil Research Network

The life and work of Simone Weil – philosopher, mystic, activist, and enigma – has defied easy description and categorization. Although Albert Camus categorised her as ‘the only great spirit of our times’, in recent years attention has been given to her metaphysics, her political philosophy, and the radicality and subversiveness of her ideas. Beyond that, the range and depth of her interests and analysis has proved salient and of continued interest in relation to social and political problems.

As per André Gide’s identification of Weil as the ‘patron saint of all outsiders’, Weil stood, and still stands in contrast to the predominant trends in philosophy, political theory, and theology. Her thought provides a productive, innovative, and interdisciplinary lens from which to approach and address the 21st century’s most pressing problems as they relate to the three key disciplines of politics, philosophy, and theology. This conference aims to explore Weil’s work in relation to these concerns.

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