Attention and grace
This collection of fragments explores the gravity of psychological and social mechanisms, attention and grace. Its brief formulations demand a reading that preserves their tensions.
An original introduction. This guide accompanies the work; it is neither the complete text nor a translation.
Gravity
Reactions and power relations can function as mechanisms imposed on us. Gustave Thibon selected and arranged these notes after Weil’s death; the influential montage does not simply reproduce the order of her notebooks.
Attention
Attention suspends appropriation and receives what resists our expectations. Compare fragments with their position in the Notebooks and distinguish editorial selection from a finished project.
Grace
Grace names a transformation that cannot be manufactured by will alone. Gustave Thibon selected and arranged these notes after Weil’s death; the influential montage does not simply reproduce the order of her notebooks.
Compare fragments with their position in the Notebooks and distinguish editorial selection from a finished project.
Your turn to think.
- What conditions make an action genuinely free?
- How can we attend to another person’s vulnerability?
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