Tout être humain est enraciné ici-bas par une certaine poésie terrestre, reflet de la lumière céleste, qui est son lien plus ou moins vaguement senti avec sa patrie universelle. Le malheur est le déracinement.
This is our conference death | text | resonance Simone Weil and writing to(wards) death in July 2020.
We invited scholars from different fields to choose a text by Simone Weil or a somehow related writer or thinker to read and discuss.
KATHRYN LAWSON
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Kate is a PhD Candidate in the department of philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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Luca Pellarin (Erfurt) & Thomas Sojer (denʞkollektiv): Reading Pierre-Joseph Proudhon – Franz C. Overbeck and Simone Weil in catalogical notes.
The French political theorist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), the German theologian Franz C. Overbeck (1837-1905), and the French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) share an interest in rethinking socialism against the backdrop of a sharp criticism of Christianity. Proudhon lays the foundation of this philosophy, leaving Overbeck and Weil to carry on his heritage, albeit in opposed
Book Launch of ‘Effort and Grace’ by Simone Kotva
For activity to be passive, it must receive something from beyond itself; it must be in excess of itself. By the spiritual I mean this fact of experience in excess of voluntary effort, of which exercise is a part. This distinction, it seems to me, is crucial. To a large part, the confusion which surrounds
Stephanie Strickland (New York): “Soul Learns Everything from Body”
Key In this poem, Stephanie refers to Simone Weil’s notion of “reading,” one of the ways we are physically imbricated in knowing. Stephanie shares Robert Kemp’s wish. Kemp speaks, as Thomas R. Nevin says, “for all Weil enthusiasts in the remark, comme on voudrait la rappeler sur cette terre, pour lui dire qu’on l’aime, et