Simone Weil is an often-overlooked thinker whose insights could radically reshape contemporary discourses on religion, nature, art, ethics, work, politics, and education. This collection of essays situates Simone Weils thought alongside prominent Continental thinkers and their philosophical concerns to show the ways in which she belongs tobut also stands outsidesome of the major streams of 'Continental discourse', including phenomenology, ethics of embodied disposition and difference, and post-Marxian political thought. For the first time in a major work, intersections between the ideas of Weil and figures such as Nietzsche, Berdyaev, Foucault, Blanchot, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Chrétien, Agamben, Fanon, and Rancière are closely examined. The volume is authored by an international team of leading scholars in Weil studies and in contemporary Continental philosophy of religion more broadly.Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy is not only an unprecedented resource for Weil scholars who seek to read her in broader (and more current) philosophical terms, but also an important addition to the libraries of scholars and students of Continental philosophy and theology engaged in thinking about some of the most pressing questions of our time.

Rebecca Rozelle-Stone is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Honors Program at the University of North Dakota. She is an active member of the American Weil Society and served as its President from 2014-2016. She is co-editor of The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later (2009) and co-author of Simone Weil and Theology (2013).

Introduction: Attending to the Outlaw A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone /Part I: Transcendental and Embodied Crossings /1. Weils Boat: On Becoming and BeingPhilip Goodchild /2.Strangely Surprised: Maurice Blanchot on Simone Weil Kevin Hart /3. Decreation and the Creative Act: Simone Weil and Nikolai BerdyaevLisa Radakovich Holsberg / 4. Recreating the Creature: Weil, Agamben, Animality& the UnsaveableBeatrice Marovich /Part II: Attentive Ethics /5. Attention and Expression: Prescriptive and Descriptive Philosophy in Weil and Merleau-PontyKascha Semonovitch Snavely /6. Levinas and Weil: Ethics after Auschwitz Robert Reed /7. Compassion, Consolation, and the Sharing of AttentionStuart Jesson / 8: Simone Weil and the Problem of FatigueA. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone /Part III: Emancipatory Politics /9: Simone Weils Analysis of Oppression:From La Boétie to the Neoliberal PresentLissa McCullough /10.The Training of the Soul: Simone Weils Dialectical Disciplinary Paradigm, a reading alongside Michel FoucaultScott B. Ritner / 11. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing: Deracination and Pessimism in WeilAnthony Paul Smith / 12. Weil and Rancière on Attention and EmancipationSophie Bourgault