02/07/2026 15:00
- 19:30
HALL: Pola - A107
Contact:
Boyle Z.
Chair:
Boyle Z.
In response to the increasingly demanding and knotty problems of our world, we require new strategies of analysis and ways of thinking. Taking up this challenge, political theology unmasks the frayed relationship between the secular and the religious at the cornerstone of liberal, technocratic (post)modernity. Many scholars invested in the insights of the vast field of political theology have often engaged heavily with Simone Weil (1909-1943); however, no connection between political theology and Simone Weil has yet been fully fleshed out. During her short lifetime, Weil's thought is infused by her witness and resistance to the totalitarianism welling up around her. Many recognize that her later turn to Christian mysticism is no less than a continuation of her explicitly political writings, such as those on Marx, labour, Hitlerism, French colonization, as well as Indian, Tibetan, and Ancient Greek thought. This panel is interested in how Weil's work through a theopolitical lens can shed new insights into our failing world and how this approach best fits with her own faithfulness to such a world.
