Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil

by | 13 Jan 2025

In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios Christodoulidis, reads one of his – and our – favourite thinkers, Simone Weil, and says of her ‘precious contribution’ (for example, in her reading of the Iliad) that she shows us how:

Attention inserts the distance between that which is understood as ‘pure momentum’, impacts as fact, and is lived as compulsion, and a reflexivity that endows life with grace. (Christodoulidis, 2021, 53)

In this series of blogposts, a group of us – friends of Emilios who have often spoken with him, and together, about the work of Weil – return to it and think again, with Weil, about friendship, labour, and attention. 

Maksymilian Del Mar and Scott Veitch

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  1. Many of us readers of CLT are looking forward to this!

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