Mutual aid as abolitionist praxis Davis, Simone Weil; Fayter, Rachel
Citizenship studies,
02/2021, Letnik:
25, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Prisons, jails, and detention facilities, by definition, are designed to isolate and separate people from their communities. To challenge and upend carcerality requires not just dismantlement, but ...radical revisioning, a building - of flourishing, free and caring communities. Collectively developed responses and resources for people and ecosystems, led by those with lived experience of oppression, are the foundation for a world without prisons.
Simone Weil Weil, Simone; Springsted, Eric O; Schmidt, Lawrence E
2015
eBook
Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909–43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such ...disciplines as sociology, history, political science, religious studies, French studies, and women's studies are often ignorant of or baffled by her philosophical investigations. In Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings, Eric O. Springsted presents a unique collection of Weil's writings, one concentrating on her explicitly philosophical thinking. The essays are drawn chiefly from the time Weil spent in Marseille in 1940-42, as well as one written from London; most have been out of print for some time; three appear for the first time; all are newly translated. Beyond making important texts available, this selection provides the context for understanding Weil's thought as a whole. This volume is important not only for those with a general interest in Weil; it also specifically presents Weil as a philosopher, chiefly one interested in questions of the nature of value, moral thought, and the relation of faith and reason. What also appears through this judicious selection is an important confirmation that on many issues respecting the nature of philosophy, Weil, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard shared a great deal.
Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909-43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such ...disciplines as sociology, history, political science, religious studies, French studies, and women's studies are often ignorant of or baffled by her philosophical investigations. InSimone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings, Eric O. Springsted presents a unique collection of Weil's writings, one concentrating on her explicitlyphilosophical thinking.
The essays are drawn chiefly from the time Weil spent in Marseille in 1940-42, as well as one written from London; most have been out of print for some time; three appear for the first time; all are newly translated. Beyond making important texts available, this selection provides the context for understanding Weil's thought as a whole. This volume is important not only for those with a general interest in Weil; it also specifically presents Weil as a philosopher, chiefly one interested in questions of the nature of value, moral thought, and the relation of faith and reason. What also appears through this judicious selection is an important confirmation that on many issues respecting the nature of philosophy, Weil, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard shared a great deal.
Rationalisation Weil, Simone
Global labour journal,
01/2024, Letnik:
15, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
The text translated here as "Rationalisation" is, to my knowledge, the first English version of a presentation given by Simone Weil in February 1937 and included in her complete works under the ...French title "Rationalisation."
In a comparative analysis, Davis examines the limitation of liberal discourses of "choice" as represented in the increasingly popular form of cosmetic vaginal surgery known as labiaplasty. By ...detailing several striking aesthetic parallels in the motivations of African and American women to seek cosmetic surgeries on their genitals, she challenges "oversimplified binaries that divide women into civilized and uncivilized."
In response to Paul Valéry's claim that “philosophy is poetry,” Simone Weil set out to examine the nature of philosophical thinking. She argues that it is above all concerned with value. In the ...course of her argument, she lays out the grammatical differences between thinking about value, and other epistemological endeavours. These differences mean that inconsistencies are not to be avoided in philosophy, and that philosophy is not a matter of system building. In the end, she also believes that thinking philosophically requires one to possess the value of detachment, and hence a readiness to be transformed.
The authors said let people start locating the two participants: As member of the Walls to Bridges Collective, a group of incarcerated and non-incarcerated people that meets regularly at the Grand ...Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario, particpants helps to coordinate the Walls to Bridges program. The Collective offers a reciprocal learning model and they seek to help usher into this world profound transformations of both educational and justice paradigms. Their work includes training and supporting faculty from around Canada who want to bring incarcerated and non-incarcerated students together to learn in community. While the "I" voice in this essay is the participants, (and I take full responsibility for the views I present), this piece emerges out of and introduces an ongoing conversation between the two participants, a peer-to-peer educator who has helped to found, facilitate, and grow a multifaceted, robust, entirely prisoner-run college program at the facility in a Midwestern state where he is incarcerated.
