by Lara Montesinos Coleman | 17 Feb 2025 | Article, Struggles for the Human
A Response to the Symposium on Struggles for the Human On the anniversary of publication of Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights (Duke University Press, 2024), it is a pleasure to respond to the contributors to...
by Claudio Michelon | 21 Jan 2025 | Article, Thinking with Simone Weil
While Kantian’s are concerned with duties, Aristotelians with human flourishing and consequentialists with aggregating value, Simone Weil’s central concern is the distance that separates us. Naturally, she has much to say about duties and human flourishing, but these...
by Fernando Atria | 20 Jan 2025 | Article, Thinking with Simone Weil
“Yes, and here’s to the few Who forgive what you do And the fewer who don’t even care” Leonard Cohen, Night Comes On When a human being is attached to another by a bond of affection which contains any degree of necessity, it is impossible that he should...
by Maksymilian Del Mar | 16 Jan 2025 | Article, Thinking with Simone Weil
Two mothers read a letter. One knows how to read and the other doesn’t. The mother who knows how to read reads and then faints. ‘Until the day she dies her eyes, her mouth, and her movements will never again be the same.’[1] The words ‘strik[e] her mind,...
by Lilian Moncrieff | 15 Jan 2025 | Article, Thinking with Simone Weil
Heaps of ruining textiles lie in a clothing graveyard (Figure 1). The items, made through significant effort and environmental cost and then abandoned, imply a decadence to c21 consumer capitalism. Codes, diligence plans and disclosures by the...
by Scott Veitch | 14 Jan 2025 | Article, Thinking with Simone Weil
Yet always there is another life, A life beyond this present knowing, A life lighter than this present splendor – Wallace Stevens, ‘The Sail of Ulysses’ It is the condition of the critical theorist to be constantly attuned to unnecessary suffering and...
