Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later

A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, The University of North Dakota, USA.Lucian Stone is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, The University of North Dakota, USA.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Preface : The Relevance of Simone Weil: 100 Years Later JACQUES CABAUD Introduction: A Call to Radicalism A. REBECCA ROZELLE-STONE and LUCIAN STONE PART I. RADICAL ORIENTATION 1. Simone Weil on Modern Disequilibrium BARTOMEU ESTELRICH 2. Simone Weil and the Ethic of (Im)moderation A. REBECCA ROZELLE-STONE 3. The Supernatural as Remedy toTotalitarian Regimes - Simone Weil on Sanctity and the Eucharist MARIE CABAUD MEANEY 4. Christianity and the Errors of Our Time: Simone Weil on Atheism and Idolatry MARIO VON DER RUHR 5. "To Make Known This Method": Simone Weil and the Business of Institutional Education CHRISTOPHER A. P. NELSON 6. Mystery and Philosophy ERIC O. SPRINGSTED PART II. RADICAL WORLD 7. Miracles and Supernatural Physics: Simone Weil on the Relationship of Science and Religion VANCE G. MORGAN 8. Simone Weil's Analysis of Modern Science as the Basis of Her Critique of the Technological Society LAWRENCE E. SCHMIDT 9. The 'War' on Error? Violent Metaphor and Words with Capital Letters A. REBECCA ROZELLE-STONE and LUCIAN STONE 10. Despair is the Handmaiden of War E. JANE DOERING 11. Power, Subjectivity, and Resistance in the Thought of Simone Weil and Michel Foucault KRISTA E. DUTTENHAVER and COY D. JONES 12. An Ethical Account of the Self Who Might Be Otherwise: Simone Weil and Judith Butler CYNTHIA GAYMAN 13. Mystical Selfhood and Women's Agency: Simone Weil and French Feminist Philosophy SARAH PINNOCK 14. Truly Incarnated: Simone Weil's Revised Christianity INESE RADZINS 15. Affliction and the Option for the Poor: Simone Weil and Latin American Liberation Theology MARIA CLARA LUCCHETTI BINGEMER Bibliography Index

"In these essays marking the centenary of Simone Weil's birth, contributors show how the life and words of the late French activist, philosopher, and mystic are arguably more urgent now than ever before. The book's first section analyzes the "radical orientation" suggested in Weil's writings, addressing the relevance of her religious ideas, the "irrelevant," the posture of attentiveness and "looking," and the roles of erotic exemplarity and mystery. The second section examines the "radical world" that follows from that orientation, considering themes like violence, power, resistance, responsibility, feminism, liberation theology, science, technology, propaganda, and political hegemony." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.