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In the last decade, interest in the writings of French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) has surged. Weil is admired for her militant syndicalism, her factory experience and participation in the French resistance, but it is above all the eclectic and rich character of her work that has increasingly attracted scholarly attention. Weil reflected on subjects as diverse as quantum physics, Greek tragedy, bankruptcy, colonialism, technology, education, and religious metaphysics, but perhaps most interesting is the way that her work seems to defy any clear ideological labelling: Marxist, anarchist, liberal, conservative and republican all seem to fall short in describing the complexity of Weils thinking. Adding to the interpretive difficulty is the fact that Weil often expressed biting criticisms of most things political. What this edited volume argues is that it is precisely Weils unclassifiable nature, combined with her sharp and sometimes ambivalent criticisms of politics, that make her work a most timely and fascinating object of study for contemporary political philosophy. It proposes a two-pronged approach to her thought: first, via a series of conversations set up between Weil and key authors in modern and contemporary political theory (e.g. Sandel, Rawls, Ahmed, Agamben, Orwell); and secondly, via a close study of Weils reflections on various ideologies. The goal of this book is not to position Simone Weil squarely within a single ideological tradition but rather to propose that her thought might allow us to critically engage with various ideologies in the history of political ideas.

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Editors
Sophie Bourgault and Julie Daigle
Simone Weil, Beyond Ideology?
1st ed. 2020
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Editors
Sophie Bourgault
School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Julie Daigle
School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
ISBN 978-3-030-48400-2 e-ISBN 978-3-030-48401-9
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48401-9
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Acknowledgments

We wish to thank all of the Weil scholars and enthusiasts on both sides of the Atlantic with whom we have had many friendly and rich conversations over the years. Very special thanks go to David Savoie and Robert Sparling for their unwavering support, patience, and good humor. Merci!

Contents
Sophie Bourgault and Julie Daigle
Part I Weil in Conversation
Eric O. Springsted
K. G. M. Earl
A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone
Michael P. A. Murphy
Oriol Quintana
Part II Weil and Ideology
Benjamin P. Davis
Alexandra Fret
Casey Ford
Scott B. Ritner
Suzanne McCullagh
Julie Daigle
Notes on Contributors
Sophie Bourgault

is an Associate Professor at the School of Political Studies (University of Ottawa, Canada) and current president of the American Weil Society. Her main research interests gravitate around contemporary feminist theory, care ethics, and Weils political thought.

Julie Daigle,

Ph.D., is a political theorist whose main research focuses on the history of ideas and particularly on the work of Simone Weil. She has also taught at the University of Ottawas School of Political Studies.

Benjamin P. Davis

is Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics at the University of Toronto, Centre for Ethics. His research focuses on douard Glissant, human rights, and an ethics of responsibility.

K. G. M. Earl

is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Simone Weils theory of justice.

Alexandra Fret

is a Doctoral candidate at the Universit Sorbonne (France) and the Universit del Salento (Italy). She has written extensively on Simone Weil.

Casey Ford

is a Philosophy Fellow at Marlboro College. He received his Ph.D. from University of Guelph in 2016. He works in the traditions of nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy, focusing on questions of ontology, ethics, and social and political thought.

Suzanne McCullagh

is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Athabasca University. Her work explores ways of thinking about ethical and political community and the formation of subjectivity and capacity.

Michael P. A. Murphy

is a SSHRC doctoral fellow in International Relations and an Associate Member of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Research Unit at the University of Ottawa. He has published over a dozen peer-reviewed articles on philosophy, pedagogy, and International Relations. His work can be found at bit.ly/37NJMkZ.

Oriol Quintana

is a lecturer in the Chair of Ethics and Christian Thought at IQS, Universitat Ramon Llull. His Ph.D. dissertation on George Orwell won the Fundaci Joan Maragall Prize. In 2019, he was the chief organizer of the 39th Annual Colloquy of the American Weil Society, in Barcelona.

A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone

is Director of the Honors Program and Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of North Dakota. She served as President of the American Weil Society, and has published The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later, Simone Weil and Theology, and Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy.

Scott B. Ritner

is Assistant Professor (Instructional) of Political Science at Temple University. He is the author of numerous chapters and articles on Simone Weils thought and is Vice President of the American Weil Society. He lives with his human partner, their baby, a large dog, and a small cat.

Eric O. Springsted

is the co-founder of the American Weil Society, and was its president for thirty-three years. A teacher, scholar, and pastor, he is the author and editor of thirteen books and numerous articles, including several on Weil. His How to Love and Think in a Flattened World: The Witness of Simone Weil in the Twenty-First Century will appear in 2020. Retired, he lives in Santa Fe, NM.

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S. Bourgault, J. Daigle (eds.) Simone Weil, Beyond Ideology? https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48401-9_1
1. Introduction: Weil, Politics and Ideology
Sophie Bourgault
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School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Sophie Bourgault (Corresponding author)
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Keywords
Simone Weil Ideology Politics Political thought Modernity

At a scholarly event devoted to her work held in 1972, Hannah Arendt was asked to clarify her ideological commitments. Political scientist Hans Morgenthau inquired: What are you? Are you a conservative? Are you a liberal? Where is your position in the contemporary possibilities? The biting answer Arendt offered would soon become a widely cited response of hers: I really dont know and Ive never known. [] And I must say I couldnt care less. Indeed, any attentive reader perusing Weils early and later writings will quickly realize the variegated scope of ideologies Weils

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