The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in First Ideas

"The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in First Ideas." New Political Science, 43(3), pp. 370–371

Notes

¹ Interestingly, Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and Lucian Stone read this letter as sardonically subversive. A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone & Lucian Stone, Simone Weil & Theology (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), 60–1.

² Emmanuel Levinas, “Simone Weil Against the Bible,” in Difficult Freedom Essays on Judaism, trans. Seán Hand, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), 133–41.

³ See Rozelle-Stone & Stone, Simone Weil & Theology; Lissa McCullough, The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil, An Introduction (New York: I.B. Taurus, 2014) and Yoon Sook Cha, Decreation and the Ethical Bind: Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).

⁴ Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017), 122–6.

⁵ Simone Weil, On the Abolition of All Political Parties, trans. Simon Leys (New York: New York Review of Books, 2014), 11.

⁶ Simone Weil, Oppression & Liberty, trans Arthur Wills and John Petrie (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1958), 42, 55, 56, 57.