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...

"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 wish autonomy...

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,...

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...

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 injustice...

L’attention humaine exerce seule légitimement la fonction judiciaire Simone Weil. Among the many inventions that the learned world owes to ancient Greece, the philosophical banquet is not the least valuable. The Greek word symposion has been retained to...

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...