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Maria Clara Bingemer is Full Professor of Systematic eology at the Ponticia Universidade Católica de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is the author
of A Face for God (2014), among other books. She has written many books and articles on Simone Weil"s thought, including the essay Aiction and Option for
the Poor: Simone Weil and Latin American Liberation eology" (in R. Rozelle and L. Stone, eds., ?e Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later ).Maria Clara Bingemer
Translated by KAREN M. KRAFT
Foreword by TOMEU ESTELRICH BARCELÓ
SIMONE WEIL
Mystic of Passion and Compassion
?e present book reflects on the life, work, and legacy of an exceptional and enigmatic woman: the philosopher and French Jewish mystic Simone Weil. It
constitutes a testimony so unique that it is impossible to ignore.
In a Europe where authoritarian regimes were dominant and heading, in a sinister manner, toward WWII, this woman of fragile health but indomi
table spirit denounced the contradictions of the capitalist system, the brutality of Nazism, and the paradox of bourgeois thought. At the same time, her
spiritual journey was one of zeal and sorrowthat of a true mysticbut her radical intransigence and passion for freedom kept her from actually
approaching the institutional church.
Curious and insatiable, she wanted to experience, in the flesh, the suffering of society"s least fortunate and the truths of other religions. ?e reader
will need to develop a discerning empathy for Simone Weil"s sensibility, beyond her particular passion and zeal, in order to appreciate her in depth.
But undeniable are this truly singular woman"s authenticity, her capacity to suffer, her identification with the other, her inner passion, her almost
magical perception of the depths of the human spirit. And that is why her story merits being told as one of the great witnesses of our age.Following her pointed observation that witnesses are fountains from which theology springs forth,"
Bingemer oers a rich theological reection on some of the central themes emerging from the life and thought of Simone Weil, one of the twentieth century"s most intriguing mystics. e book brings Weil
into the heart of the Christian theological tradition, while recognizing her desire to remain clear of any
institutional determination. It is an important contribution to Weil studies, and to contemporary mystical theology."?CATHERINE CORNILLE, Newton College Alumnae Chair, Boston College
e always fascinating enigma of Weil and the wellspring for social justice represented by Brazil"s most
spiritually creative theologian of liberation come together in this superbly translated theological
biography . . . [A] highly compelling meditation on the fragility and necessity of intellectual work in the
face of the suering of the marginalized."
?PETER CASARELLA, Associate Professor of Systematic eology, University of Notre Damee voice of Simone Weila key gure of the French philosophy of the twentieth centuryis given to us to listen to by Bingemer. With skill and clarity she brings us into a thought without concessions, rooted in Christ (without entering into the Catholic Church), and committed to the insignicant people of our world. A good resource for contemporary researchers. A paradoxical testimony!""
?THIERRY?MARIE COURAU, Dean of eologicum, Institut Catholique de Paris
Only a scholar who has passionately journeyed with Simone Weil over a lifetime could have produced
this book. By any measure what Bingemer oers is exceptional. e beauty of Weil"s intellect, heart, and life come alive in Bingemer"s hands. is elegantly written book presents an intimate, compelling
portrait of Weil that invites readers to consider how we too might give witness to the light intellectually
and compassionately." ?NANCY PINEDA?MADRID, Associate Professor of eology & U.S. Latino/a Ministry, Boston College School of
eology and Ministry
Simone Weil
Simone Weil
Mystic of Passion and Compassion
MARIA CLARA BINGEMER
Translated by Karen M. Kraft
Foreword by Tomeu Estelrich
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Mystic of Passion and Compassion
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Contents
Foreword by Tomeu Estelrich | vii
Simone Weil Bibliography and Abbreviations Used | xiii
English Translations of Simone Weil | xv
Introduction | xvii
From the Translator | xix
Timeline and Pro?le | 2 Encountering the Poor | 95 Christic Mysticism and the Exodus of Self | 03 A Paradoxical Testimony | 48
Conclusion: A Witness for Di cult Times | 2?2
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?at which limits is God. . . . ?at which is unlimited has no existence except in receiving a limit from outside. - Simone Weil, Divine Love in Creation ?e most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known su1ering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. ?ese persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understand- ing of life that 2lls them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Death: The Final Stage of Growth I t is always an interesting experience, pleasurable and uncanny at the same time, to read books authored by friends: they not only expand your knowledge about the new topics they are unraveling, but also they reveal aspects of their academic personality" of which you were totally unaware. And this is precisely what happened to me while reading this book. Simone Weil: Mystic of Passion and Compassion reveals Maria Clara Bingemer"s latest attempt to untangle one of her favorite, most pervasive, and consistent topics: the analysis of the limits of this world from a religious perspective. Even though I have never heard Maria Clara use those exact
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viii words to refer to that topic, I think they perfectly dene her interests as a scholar. Beginning with her theological writings, Maria Clara has ap- proached the study of the limits by tackling issues as important as prophe- cy, mysticism, sanctity, the Trinity, social commitment, liberation theology, and the role of the woman in the Catholic Church. More recently, taking a rather philosophical standpoint, she has examined contemporary thinkers who have devoted their lives to exploring the limits between ethics, reli- gion, and social engagement, such as Emmanuel Mounier, Ignazio Silone, Emmanuel Levinas, Edith Stein, René Girard, Etty Hillesum, and Simone Weil. Even though Maria Clara is fond of all these philosophers, it is Simone Weil who holds a special place in her writings. Weil appeals to her, not only because of her heroic, almost epic, life, but also for her convoluted religious experience; not only for being an exceptional witness in a tumultuous and treacherous time, but also for exercising a critical voice against the social inequalities of her moment; not only for conceptualizing the experience of living in a world devoid of God, but also for formulating a spirituality that aims to nd Him in his very absence. e conjunction of these aspects makes Simone Weil, in the eyes of Maria Clara, an exceptional thinker, full of thought-provoking insights, and one who entirely fullls her arguably three main academic interests: prophecy, mysticism, and social commitment. As a prophetic voice, Weil is portrayed as a wounded intellectual who, immersed in sheer political activism, saw well beyond her time; ... threw herself into experiences and projects before others would do so, and ... came to serve as a refer- ence for others who would later travel the same path" (chapter ). As a mystic writer, Weil is depicted as an attentive, obedient, and una?liated Christian, possessed by a relentless desire of kenotic abasement: Her life"s meaning, and the only way not to squander her death, was to remain in complete solitude, in absolute darkness, in profound silence, in the hands of the One who alone is able to tend to her cries" (chapter ). Finally, as a social thinker, Weil is described as a wounded cantor, eager to uncover the always unsettling and elusive truth: Weil is a thinker wounded by the truth that no poetry concerning the people is authentic if fatigue does not gure in it, and the hunger and thirst which come from fatigue" (chapter ). By emphasizing these liminal features, Maria Clara invites us, the readers, to place Simone Weil in the philosophical tradition of the limit. 1 . We must recall here that the Spanish version of this book is titled Simone Weil:
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ix is traditionwhose main representatives are Plato, Kant, Hegel, Hei- degger, and Wittgenstein 2 focuses on the analysis of two main questions, what is being?" and what is the truth?" In exploring these two questions, this tradition manages to map the limits of the world by separating two sets of elements: those that can be sensed, understood, and stated, from those that can merely be intuited, contemplated, or imagined. us, Plato, to start with the eldest in the tradition, sets the limits of the world by establishing the existence of a hyperuranios realm, inhabited with eternal forms (eidos), that give shape to the entirety of our perceptions. For Kant, the phenom- enal world is metaphysically limited by an unreachable and unknowable noumenon (the thing-in-itself), and transcendentally divided into three autonomous realms: the epistemological (What can I know?), the ethi- cal(What ought I to do?), and the religious (What may I hope?). For Hegel, the limits of the world are generated by an absolute mind or spirit (Geist), which evolves and transforms our world into a quasi-totalitarian system. For Heidegger, death is the ultimate limit (peras) of human existence, en- circling the subject (Dasein) into its domain and exacerbating its radical freedom. For Wittgenstein, language establishes the limits of the world by separating what exists (and can be said") from what does not exist (and about which one must keep silent). At par with this tradition, Weil believes that this worldor, as she calls it, the reality of here below (réalité d'ici-bas)is limited. Like Plato, she believes that there is a transcendent reality outside it (the réalité hors du monde), for which the ultimate purpose is to guide, in-form, and trans-form this world. For her, at reality is the unique source of all the good that can exist in the world: that is to say, all beauty, all truth, all justice, all legitimacy, all order, and all human behavior that is mindful of obligations." 3
Humans,
caught in between both worlds, have the liminal function to connect both realities, since they, and only they, are capable to long for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any other ob- ject in this world." 4 However, not everyone is up to that challenge. Only those whose attention and love are turned towards that reality are the sole intermediary through which good can descend from there and come una mística a los límites, which can be translated as Simone Weil: A Mystic at the Limits. . See Trias, Los Límites del Mundo. . Miles, Simone Weil: An Anthology, . . Ibid.
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x among men." 5 In establishing this division, Weil manages to determine a second limit, ethico-spiritual this time, between two kinds of individuals: those who are willing to open their minds to the transcendent reality, and to transform the unjust situations of this world by allowing the good to descend and be part of it; and those who, overlooking that outer reality, thoughtlessly accept the limitation of this world, and assume its consequen- tial inequalities. Although Weil"s interpretation of this second limit sets her apart from the modern and contemporary philosophers of the limit, 6 it is precisely the theological possibilities that it opens that captures Maria Clara"s attention and prompts her to use it in her research. In fact, I would argue, the reason why Maria Clara selects Simone Weil"s philosophy is not primarily for the theoretical and metaphysical implications that I just have mentioned, but eminently for its ethical and religious repercussions. Her ultimate interest is to describe liminal situations where the ethical is radicalized to such a degree that it unveils and reveals, almost abruptly, the hidden presence of the sacred. us, the cross, to start with the most representative of those tion, and despair give rise to life, joy, and liberation. e incarnation por- trays the capacity of the supernatural to penetrate, immerse, and dwell in the least desirable and most degraded zones of this world. e Eucharist signies the human longing for transformation, change, and renewal. Mar- tyrdom represents the radical oering of someone"s life for the sake of the ultimate reality. Kenosis expresses the willful desire to descend to, and be transformed by, the most inhuman and merciless experiences of this world. And sanctity suggests the liminal experience of waiting in pure abstention" and in inactive action" behind a mythical door (la porte) that, according to the famous Weilienne poem (Prologue in OC VI/, -), invites and deprives the traveler from the transcendent reality. But this intellectual journey through the religious and ethical limits of the world does not stop here. It leads us to a third and nal limit: Sim- one Weil herself. In the last chapter of the book, Weil is portrayed as a identity and beliefs. She is described, using four powerful images, as a self- exiled Jew in permanent struggle with her understanding of Judaism; as an . Ibid. . Kant, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein, unlike Weil, believe that the other reality is unreachable, unknowable, and has no part in this life.
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xi intellectual, more interested in praxis than theory; as an unaliated mystic whose metaphysical interests go beyond the teachings of the traditional religious systems; and as a pioneer of interfaith dialogue who uses its inner contradictions to reach supernatural truth. By introducing this new limit into the narrative plot, Maria Clara not only changes the dynamic of the book, but also its intention. Now, intermingled with her academic interests, emerges a more subjective one: one that compels the readers to take a per- sonal stand on Simone Weil"s philosophy and face the uncomfortable, but probably unavoidable, question about whether we agree or disagree with her premises; whether we adhere to or refuse her viewpoints; and whether we accept or reject her provocative proposals altogether. But that is neither easy nor desirable. Simone Weil"s philosophy, as the rest of philosophies available at present, must not be accepted or refused based solely on the degree of emotional bonding that the reader is capable of establishing with the author. On the contrary, what it is more appropriate, and where the last chapter of this book is leading us, is to take a more solid perspective. It invites us to take a step further, come back to the rst chapters of the book, and contemplate afresh the big picture of Simone Weil"s life. Exitus and reditus. Only by closing the circle it is possible to fully appreciate the transcendental aspects of Weil"s philosophy, the problematic of some of its ethical approaches, and the (in)convenience of its pointed proposals. Only by taking distance it is viable to create an existential gap between us and Simone Weil"s life, that allows us to decide whether we accept or refuse some, none, or all of her philosophical positions.
Tomeu Estelrich
Boston College
Vice President, American Weil Society
Boston, January ,
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Simone Weil Bibliography and
Abbreviations Used
(From the list provided by the Association Internationale pour l"Etude de la
Pensée de Simone Weil in Paris, France)
AD Attente de Dieu
AD1 La Colombe, Ed. du Vieux Colombier, , pp.
AD2 La Colombe, nd ed., , pp.
AD3 Coll. Le Livre de poche chrétien," , pp.
AD4 Librairíe Arthème Fayard, , pp.
AD5 Ed. du Seuil, coll. Livre de vie," , pp. C Cahiers, Librairie Plon, col. L"Epi (I: ; II: ; III: ) C2 nd edition (I: ; II: ; III: ) CO La Condition ouvri- ere, Gallimard
CE Euvres, Gallimard, col. Cuarto,"
CO1 Col. Espoir,"
CO Col. Idées," ,
CO3 Col. & Polio Essais,
CS La Connaissance Surnaturelle, Gallimard, col. Espoir, CSW
Cahiers Simone Weil
E L'Enracinement, Gallimard
E1 Col. Espoir,"
E2 Col. ldées," , ; col. Folio-Essais," EHP Ecrits historiques et politiques, Gallimard, col. Espoir,"
Simone Weil Bibliography and Abbreviations Used
xiv EL Ecrits de Londres et dernières lettres, Gallimard, col. Espoir," IPC Intuitoins préchrétiennes, La Colombe, Ed. du Vieux Colombier, ; Librairie Arthème Fayard, , LP Leçons de philosophie de Simone Weil (Roanne 1933-1934)
LP1 Librairie Plon,
LP2 Union Générale d"Editions, col. /,"
LI3 Plon,
LR Lettre à un religieux
LR1 Gallimard, col. Espoir,"
LR2 Ed. du Seuil, col. Livre de vie,"
OC Oeuvres complètes, Gallimard
OC I Premiers écrits philosophiques,
OC II Ecrits historiques et politiques. L'Engagement syndical (1927-juil- let 1934), 1988 OC II Ecrits historiques et politiques. L'Expérience ouvrière et l'adieu à la révolution (juillet 1934-juin 1937), OC II Ecrits historiques et politiques. Vers la Guerre (1937-1940),
OC VI Cahiers (1933-September 1941),
OC VI Cahiers (September 1941-February 1942),
OC VI Cahiers (February 1942-June 1942),
OL Oppression et liberté, Gallimard, col. Espoir," P Poémes suivis de Venise sauvée, Gallimard, col. Espoir,"
PG La Pesanteur et la grâce
PG1 Librairie Plon, col. L"Epi,"
PO2 Plon, col. Agora,"
PSO Pensées sans ordre concernant l'amour de Dieu, Gallimard, col.
Espoir,"
R Re?exions sur les causes de la liberté et de l'oppression sociale, Gallimard, col. Idées," ; col. & Folio-Essais, S
Sur la Science, Gallimard, col. Espoir,"
SG La Source grecque
SG1 Gallimard, col. Espoir," , pp.
SG2 Gallimard, col. Espoir," , pp.
SP I, II Simone Pétrement, La Vie de Simone Weil, vols., Librairie
Arthème Fayard, ,
SP vol., Fayard,
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English Translations of Simone Weil
e original French texts are indicated in parentheses. First and Last Notebooks. Translated by Richard Rees. London: Oxford University Press, (Excerpts from Cahiers [C] and La Connaissance surnaturelle [CS]From C, Pre-War Notebook, -(?) " and from CS, New York Notebook, " and London
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