Simone Weil Bibliography Primary Sources in English

• 1946. The Iliad; or, The Poem of Force. New York: Politics.
• 1947. Gravity and Grace. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• 1950. Waiting on God. London: Collins.
• 1951. Waiting for God. New York: Harper and Row.
• 1952. The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Toward Mankind. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
• 1953. Letter to a Priest. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• 1956. Notebooks. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• 1957. Imitations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks. Boston: Beacon Press.
• 1958. Oppression and Liberty. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• 1965. Seventy Letters. Translated by R. Rees. London: Oxford University Press.
• 1968. On Science, Necessity and the Love of God. Translated by R. Rees. London: Oxford University Press.
• 1970. First and Last Notebooks. New York: Oxford University Press.
• 1973. “Magnitude and the Epic Vision: The 'Illiad,' Poem of Might." In Parnassus Revisited: Modern Critical Essays on the Epic Tradition. Edited by Anthony C. Yu. Chicago: American Library Association.
• 1974. Gateway to God. Translated by David Raper. New York: Crossroad.
• 1978. Lectures on Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 1981. Two Moral Essays: Human Personality, and On Human Obligation. Pendle Hill.
• 1987. "Are We Struggling for Justice?" Philosophical Investigations (January 1987): 1-10.
• 1987. "Factory Journal." In Formative Writings, 1929-1941. Translated by D.T. McFarland and W. Van Ness. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
• 1987. "Philosophy." In Formative Writings, 1929-1941. Translated by D.T. McFarland and W. Van Ness. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
• 1987. "Science and Perception in Descartes." In Formative Writings, 1929-1941. Translated by D.T. McFarland and W Van Ness. Amherst: University of Massachusetts
• 1987. "The Situation in Germany." In Formative Writings, 1929-1941. Translated by D.T. McFarland and W. Van Ness. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
• 1987. "War and Peace." In Formative Writings, 1929-1941. Translated by D.T. McFarland and W. Van Ness. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. Note: Many of Weil’s essays were published in journals and newspapers during her lifetime.

Simone Weil Bibliography: selected secondary sources

• Abosch, Heinz. Simone Weil: An Introduction. Translated by Kimberly A Kenny. New York: Pennbridge Books, 1994.
• Avery, Desmond, and Janet Sayers. “Nothingness, Politics and Psychoanalysis: Simone Weil and Marion Milner.” Psychoanalytic Studies 3, no. 2 (2001): 209-21.
• Allen, Diogenes. “Incarnation in the Gospels and the Bhagavad Gita.” Faith Philosophy 6 (July 1989): 241-259.

  ------------------Three Outsiders: Pascal, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil. Cambridge: Cowley Publications, 1983.

• Allen, Diogenes, and Eric O. Springsted. Spirit, Nature, and Community: Issues in the Thought of Simone Weil. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
• Anderson, David. Simone Weil. London: S.C.M. Press, 1971.
• Andrew, Edward. “Simone Weil on the Injustice of Rights-Based Doctrines.” The Review of Politics 48, no. 1 (Winter 1986): 60-91.
• Avery, Desmond, and Janet Sayers. “Nothingness, Politics and Psychoanalysis: Simone Weil and Marion Milner.” Psychoanalytic Studies 3, no. 2 (2001): 209-21.
• Bancroft, Anne. “Simone Weil.” In Weavers of Wisdom: Women of the Twentieth Century. New York: Arkana,1989.
• Becker, Jilian. “Simone Weil: A Saint for our Time?” The New Criterion 20, no 7 (March 2002): 15-23.
• Bell, Richard H, ed. Simone Weil’s Philosophy of Culture: Readings Toward a Divine Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

  ________. Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998.

• Bergman, Susan. “Simone Weil.” In Martyrs: Contemporary Writers on Modern Lives of Faith. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.
• Blum, Lawrence A., and Victor J. Seidler. A Truer Liberty: Simone Weil and Marxism. New York: Routledge, 1989. Bouchardeau, Huguette. Simone Weil: Biographie. Paris: Julliard, 1995.
• Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. “Stein and Weil: Diverging Responses to Jewish and Christian Traditions.” In Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

  ________. “Stein and Weil: Between Self-Affirmation and Self-Reunification.” In Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

  _______. “Stein and Weil: Displaced and Autobiographical Selves.” In Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

  ________. “Stein and Weil: Women’s Nature and Destiny.” In Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

• Brown, Anna J. “Love’s Justice: The Political Thought of Simone Weil.” Ph.D. diss., Fordham University, 1998.
• Brueck, Katherine T. “The Sacramental Poetics of Simone Weil.” In The Redemption of Tragedy: The Literary Vision of Simone Weil. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

  ________. “Simone Weil and Christian Tragedy.” In The Redemption of Tragedy: The Literary Vision of Simone Weil. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

• Cabaud, Jacques. Simone Weil: A Fellowship in Love. New York: Channel Press, 1964.
• Callahan, Alice. Spiritual Guides for Today: Evelyn Underhill, Dorothy Day, Karl Rahner, Simone Weil, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen. New York: Crossroad, 1992.
• Carson, Anne. “Decreation: How Women Like Sappho, Marguerite Porete, and Simone Weil Tell God.” Common Knowledge 8, no. 1 (2002): 188-201.
• Coles, Robert. Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1987.

  ________. “Simone Weil: The Mystery of Her Life.” The Yale Review 73 (Winter 1984): 309-20.

• Cook, Bradford. “Simone Weil: Art and the Artist Under God.” In God and the Writer. New Haven: Yale French Studies, 1953.
• Courtine-Denamy, Sylvie. Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, or Amor Fati, Amor Mundi. Translated by G.M. Goshgarian. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
• Dargan, Joan. Simone Weil: Thinking Poetically. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
• Davy, Marie-Madeleine. The Mysticism of Simone Weil. Boston: Beacon Press, 1951.
• Dietz, Mary G. Between the Human and the Divine: The Political Thought of Simone Weil. Totowa: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988.
• Dunaway, John M. Simone Weil. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984.

  Dunaway, John M., and Eric O. Springsted. The Beauty That Saves: Essays on Aesthetics and Language in Simone Weil. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1996

• Eaton, Jeffrey C. “Simone Weil and Feminist Spirituality.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 54 (Winter 1986): 691-704.
• Fiedler, Leslie. “Simone Weil, Prophet out of Israel: A Saint of the Absurd.” In Arguments and Doctrines: A Reader of Jewish Thinking in the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Compiled by Arthur Allen Cohen. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.
• Finch, Henry Le Roy, and Martin Andic. Simone and the Intellect of Grace. Translated by Joseph R. Berrigan. New York: Continuum, 1999.
• Fiori, Gabriella. Simone Weil: An Intellectual Biography. Translated by Joseph R. Berrigan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
• Frost, Christopher, and Rebecca Louise Bell-Metereau. Simone Weil: On Politics, Religion, and Society. London: Sage, 1998. Giles, Patrick. “Looking for Simone.” Commonweal 129, no 9 (May 3 2002): 10-11.
• Gray, Francine du Plessix. “Loving and Hating Simone Weil.” The American Scholar 70, no. 3 (Summer 2001): 5-11.

  ________. Simone Weil. New York: Viking, 2001. Hacker, Carlotta. “Simone Weil.” In Rebels. New York: Crabtree Publishers, 1999.

• Hanratty, Gerald. “The Cathar Mysticism of Simone Weil.” In Studies in Gnosticism and in the Philosophy of Religion. Portland: Four Courts Press, 1997.
• Hardwick, Elizabeth. “Memories: Simone Weil.” In Bartleby in Manhattan: And Other Essays. New York: Random House, 1983.
• Hellman, John. Simone Weil: An Introduction to Her Thought. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1982.
• Hermsen, Joke J. “The Impersonal and the Other: On Simone Weil (1907-43).” The European Journal of Women’s Studies 6, no. 2 (1999): 183-200.

  Hermsen, Joke J., and Dana R. Villa, eds. “‘Who’ is the Spectator? Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on Thinking and Judging.” In The Judge and the Spectator: Hannah Arendt’s Political Philosophy. Leuven: Peeters, 1999.

• Hirsch, Edward. “Simone Weil: Lecture on Love.” In The Best Spiritual Writing, 1998. San Francisco, 1998.
• Hohlwein, Kathryn. “Armed with a Burning Patience: Reflections on Simone Weil.” In The Feminist Mystic, and Other Essays on Women and Spirituality. New York: Crossroad, 1982.
• Hooft, Stan van. “The Meanings of Suffering.” The Hastings Center Report 28, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1998): 13-19.
• Idinopulos, Thomas A., and Josephine Zadovsky Knopp. Mysticism, Nihilism, Feminism: New Critical Essays on Theology of Simone Weil. Johnson City: Institute of Social Sciences and Arts, 1984.
• Irwin, Alec. “Devoured by God: Cannibalism, Mysticism, and Ethics in Simone Weil.” Cross Currents 51, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 257-72.
• Irwin, Alexander. Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
• Kempfner, Gaston. La Philosophie Mystique de Simone Weil. Paris: La Colombe, 1960.
• Kerr, Hugh T., and John M. Mulder, eds. “Simone Weil.” In Conversions: The Christian Experience. Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1983.
• Klassen, Sarah. Simone Weil: Songs of Hunger and Love. Toronto: Wolsak and Wynn, 1999.
• Klenner, Peter. Simone Weil and the Enigma of Suffering and Affliction. Ph.D. diss., Regent College, 1999.
• Lewis, Gary A., Ronald Beiner, and Joseph Masciulli. “Consent to the Universe: Simone Weil and the Natural Ground for Technological Choice.” In Democratic Theory and Technological Society. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1988.
• Lindemann, Kate. “Simone Weil (1909-1943).” In A History of Women Philosophers, vol. 4. Edited by Mary Ellen Waithe. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
• Little, J. P. Simone Weil: Waiting on Truth. Oxford: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.

  ________. Simone Weil: A Bibliography. London: Grant and Cutler, 1973.

• Loades, A.L. “Eucharistic Sacrifice: The Problem of How to Use a Liturgical Metaphor, With Special Reference to Simone Weil.” In Sacrifice and Redemption: Durham Essays in Theology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• Lukacs, John. “Resistance: Simone Weil.” Salmagundi no. 85/86 (Winter/Spring 1990): 106-18.
• Mallinson, J. D. “Simone Weil (1909-1943).” Contemporary Review 259 (November 1991): 262.
• McCullough, Lissa Jean. “Simone Weil’s God: A Radical Christianity for the Secular World.” University of Chicago, 1999.
• McFarland, Dorothy Tuck. Simone Weil. New York: F. Ungar Publishing Company, 1983.
• McLane-Iles, Betty. Uprooting and Integrating in the Writings of Simone Weil. New York: Peter Long Publishers, 1987.
• McLellan, David. Utopian Pessimist: The Life and Thought of Simone Weil. New York: Poseidon Press, 1990.
• Meltzer, Francoise. “The Hands of Simone Weil.” Critical Inquiry 27, no. 4 (Summer 2001): 611-28.
• Merton, Thomas. “Answer of Minerva: Pacifism and Resistance in Simone Weil.” In The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton. Edited by Patrick Hart. New York: New Directions, 1981.
• Meyerhoff, Hans. “Contra Simone Weil: ‘The Voices of Demons for the Silence of God.’” In Arguments and Doctrines: A Reader of Jewish Thinking in the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Compiled byArthur Allen Cohen. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.
• Milosz, Czeslaw. “The Importance of Simone Weil.” In Emperor of the Earth: Modes of Eccentric Vision. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
• Moulakis, Athanasios. Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-denial. Translated by Ruth Hein. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998.
• Nava, Alexander. The Mystical and Prophetic Thought of Simone Weil and Gustavo Gutiérrez: Reflections on the Mystery and Hiddenness of God. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001
• Nevin, Thomas R. Simone Weil: Portrait of a Self-exiled Jew. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
• Nordquist, Joan. Simone Weil: A Bibliography. Santa Cruz: Reference and Research Services, 1995.
• Nye, Andrea. Philosophia: The Thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Simone Weil, and Hannah Arendt. New York: Routledge, 1994.
• Oxenhandler, Neal. Looking for Heroes in Postwar France: Albert Camus, Max Jacob, Simone Weil. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1996.
• Palmer, Joy, David Edward Cooper, and Liora Bresler, eds. “Simone Weil.” In Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present. New York: Routledge, 2001.
• Panichas, George Andrew. “The Christ of Simone Weil.” Studies in Formative Spirituality 4 (May 1983): 229- 42.

  ________. “Definers and Defenders: The Challenge of Simone Weil.” In The Courage of Judgment: Essays in Criticism, Culture, and Society. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982.

  ________. “Simone Weil: A Passionate Platonist.” In The Reverent Discipline: Essays in Literary Criticism and Culture. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973.

• Partner, Margaret, and Daniel Partner. “Simone Weil (1909-1943).” In A Cloud of Witnesses: Readings on Women of Faith. Grand Rapids: F.H. Revell, 2000.
• Patsouras, Louis. Simone Weil and the Socialist Tradition. San Francisco: EMText, 1991.
• Paulsell, William O. “Simone Weil.” In Tough Minds, Tender Hearts: Six Prophets of Social Justice. New York: Paulist Press, 1990.
• Perrin, Joseph Marie and Gustave Thibon. Simone Weil as We Knew Her. Translated by Emma Craufurd. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953.
• Pétrement, Simone. Simone Weil: A Life. Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.
• Pierce, Roy. “Simone Weil (1909-43): Sociology, Utopia, and Faith.” Contemporary French Political Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
• Pirruccello, Ann. “Making the World My Body: Simone Weil and Somatic Practice.” Philosophy East & West 52, no. 4 (October 2002): 479-97.

  ________. “Interpreting Simone Weil: Presence and Absence in Attention.” Philosophy East & West 45 (January 1995): 61-72. Plant, Stephen. Simone Weil. London: Fount, 1996. Rees, Richard. Brave men: A Study of D.H. Lawrence and Simone Weil. London: Gollancz, 1958.

  ________, ed. Selected Essays, 1934-1943. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.

  ________. On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God; Essays. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.

  ________, trans. Seventy Letters: Some Hitherto Untranslated Texts from Published and Unpublished Sources. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.

  ________, ed. Simone Weil: A Sketch for a Portrait. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966.

• Rhees, Rush, D. Z. Phillips, and Mario Von der Ruhr. Discussions of Simone Weil. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
• Roney, Johanna Selles. “The Spirituality of Labour: Simone Weil’s Quest for Transcendence.” Ph.D. diss., Institute for Christian Studies, 1983.
• Siân, Miles. Simone Weil, An Anthology. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986. Sontag, Susan. “Simone Weil.” In Against Interpretation: And Other Essays. New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1966.
• Springsted, Eric O. Christus Mediator: Platonic Mediation in the Thought of Simone Weil. Chico: Scholars Press, 1983.

  ________. “The Religious Basis of Culture: T.S. Eliot and Simone Weil.” Religious Studies 25 (March 1989): 105-16.

  ________. Simone Weil and the Suffering of Love. Cambridge: Cowley, 1986. Stokes, Thomas. Audience, Intention, and Rhetoric in Pascal and Simone Weil. New York: P. Lang, 1996.

• Tastard, Terry. “Simone Weil’s Last Journey.” America 184, no. 12 (April 9 2001): 7-14.
• Tauber, Susan A. “The Absent God.” Journal of Religion 35 (January 1995).
• Teuber, Andreas. “Simone Weil: Equality as Compassion.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 431 (December 1982): 221-238.
• Tomlin, E. W. Simone Weil. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. Vetö, Miklós. The Religious Metaphysics of Simone Weil. Translated by Joan Dargan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
• Werge, Thomas. “Simone Weil.” In Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001. West, Paul. “Knowing the Worst: Simone Weil.” In The Wine of Absurdity; Essays on Literature and Consolation. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1966.
• White, George Abbott. Simone Weil: Interpretations of a Life. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981.
• Winch, Peter. Simone Weil: ‘The Just Balance.’ New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Winchell, James. “Semantics of the Unspeakable: Six Sentences by Simone Weil.” In Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
• Zagano, Phyllis, comp. “Simone Weil (1909-1943).” In Woman to Woman: An Anthology of Women’s Spiritualities. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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