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Decreation and the Ethical Bind
Yoon Sook Cha
(Fordham University Press, 2017)
Venice Saved
Translated by Silvia Panizza and Philip Wilson
(Bloomsbury, 2017)
Review by Ronald K.L. Collins.
Lissa McCullough
(I.B. Tauris, 2014)
A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and Lucian Stone
(Bloomsbury, 2013)
* Simone Weil and Theology reviewed in the LA Review of Books.
Robert Chenavier
Trans. Bernard E. Doering
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2012)
Simone Weil
Palle Yougrau
(Reaktion Books, 2011)
At Home with Andre and Simone Weil
Sylvie Weil
(Northwestern University Press, 2010)
Simone Weil and the Specter of Self-Perpetuating Force
E. Jane Doering
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2010)
Simone Weil & the Suffering of Love
Eric O. Springsted
(Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010)
The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later
A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and Lucian Stone (Eds.)
(Continuum, 2010)
A Truer Liberty: Simone Weil and Marxism
Lawrence A. Blum and Victor J. Seidler
(Routledge, 2009)
Simone Weil's Apologetic Use of Literature
Marie Cabaud Meaney
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
Beyond Power:Simone Weil and the Notion of Authority
Desmond Avery
(Lexington Books, 2008)
Simone Weil: An Apprenticeship in Attention
Mario von der Ruhr
(Continuum, 2007)
Three Outsiders: Pascal, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil
Diogenes Allen
(Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2006)
Weaving the World:
Simone Weil on Science, Mathematics, and Love
Vance G. Morgan
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)
The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil
E. Jane Doering and Eric O. Springsted (Eds.)
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2004)
Discussions of Simone Weil
Rush Rhees
(SUNY Press, 2000)
Simone Weil: Thinking Poetically
Joan Dargan
(SUNY Press, 1999)
Simone Weil:
The Way of Justice as Compassion
Richard H. Bell
(Rowan & Littlefield, 1998)
The Redemption of Tragedy:
The Literary Wisdom of Simone Weil
Katherine T. Brueck
(SUNY Press, 1995)
Spirit, Nature, and Community:
Issues in the Thought of Simone Weil
Diogenes Allen and Eric O. Springsted
(SUNY Press, 1994)
The Religious Metaphysics of Simone Weil
Miklos Vetö
(SUNY Press, 1994)
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