Between Wittgenstein and Weil

Jack Manzi completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 2023, with a thesis on maieutic philosophical method in Socrates and Wittgenstein. His research specialisms are in Wittgenstein, Socrates, and the maieutic method.

• Introduction Jack Manzi 1. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Simone Weil, and Religious Belief Mario von der Ruhr 2. To Speak of the Divine: Weil and Wittgenstein on Religious Grammar Jacob Quick 3. Learning to Look: On Mysticism and Mysticisms Philip Wilson 4. Will the Void: Wittgenstein and Weil on the Ethics of Attention Hannah Winther 5. Struggling with the Supernatural Hugo Strandberg 6. Weil Meets Wittgenstein Palle Yourgrau 7. Writing (Out) The Self: Wittgenstein and Weil on Diaristic Writing Jack Manzi 8. Affliction: Pain and the Problems of Modernity C. M. Djordjevic 9. Wittgenstein and Weil on Manufacturing Good David Levy

"This volume correlates two figures of the early twentieth-century renowned for their rigour, genius, precocity, and the purity of their quests – betraying a certain saintliness. Intellectual fascination with Weil and Wittgenstein never seems to flag for a reason. In an era with few spiritual beacons, both manifested in their lives and thought the essence of religious authenticity. Bringing the two together helps each to stand forth in uncompromising individuality all the more sharply."Lissa McCullough, California State University Dominguez Hills, USA