Social philosophy · Attention · 1909–1943

Simone Weil

See those whom force crushes.

Paris · Marseille · London

Portraits: artistic interpretations

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Works, testimonies and further readings are distinguished. Dates refer to composition or first publication, as specified in each entry.

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This bibliography presents major works, journal publications and posthumous collections. Editions of the Notebooks, individual articles, letters and fragments are not yet exhaustively indexed; edited collections are distinguished from completed works.

Work1934 / 1955

Reflections on the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression

Written in 1934 before her factory experience and published posthumously, the essay engages Marx without reducing every form of domination to ownership.

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Work1947

Gravity and Grace

Gustave Thibon selected and arranged these notes after Weil’s death; the influential montage does not simply reproduce the order of her notebooks.

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Work1949

The Need for Roots

Composed in London in 1943 and published after her death, the work remains unfinished; its political proposals belong to the context of Resistance.

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Work1934–1935 / 1951

Factory Journal

Written during factory jobs in 1934–1935, the journal appeared posthumously in the collection The Condition of Labour, alongside other letters and essays.

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Work1940–1941

The Iliad, or the Poem of Force

Published under a pseudonym during the Second World War, the essay connects classical reading with contemporary experience of war.

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Work1950

Waiting for God

Father Joseph-Marie Perrin assembled this posthumous collection from writings of 1941–1942; the actual exchange must be distinguished from editorial arrangement.

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Work1951–1956

Notebooks

Posthumous volumes bring together notebooks from different periods; ordering and variants depend on the edition. An isolated fragment does not replace its manuscript context.

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Work1951

The Condition of Labour

The volume assembles documents of different dates and genres; the Factory Journal also has its own record to make that part of the collection visible.

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Work1950

On the Abolition of All Political Parties

Written in the context of war and published after her death, this note advances a radical proposal whose conditions and consequences remain open to debate.

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Work1955

Venice Saved

Written during the Second World War and published after Weil’s death, the play remains incomplete; editions must not be mistaken for a definitively finished version.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Simone Weil Encyclopaedia Britannica — Simone Weil

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