Sainte Simone: Simone Weil

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Year of Publication

2002

Author

Steiner, George

Editor

Steiner, George

Book

De la Bible à Kafka

Pages

101-111

Publisher

Bayard

Place Published

Paris

Language

French

Translator

Dauzat, Pierre-Emmanuel

Keywords

anorexia
antisemitism
masochism
Bell, Richard

Annotation

Originally published as a review of Richard Bell, ed. Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture, Steiner’s essay provides a thoughtful, informed critique of what he sees as a 'hagiographic' approach to Weil and her work. Touching on the essays in Bell's volume, he raises disturbing questions about Weil's anti-Semitism, masochism and anorexia and the ways they are ignored or dismissed in the scholarship on her.

Notes

This book chapter is reviewed by Robert Chenavier in Cahiers Simone Weil 25, no.4 2002, p. 351-352