This episode I am talking to Dr Tiff Thomas. We discuss the philosophy, ideas and politics of activist, mystic, worker and educator Simone Weil.
Tiff is a lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University and specializes in Spinoza. He is also interested in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Simone Weil. You can find out more about Tiff here. Tiff is a co-leader of the AHRC Funded UK Simone Weil Research Network which you can follow on Twitter here. You can also find links to his writings on Simone Weil and Spinoza at the bottom of these show notes.
If you would like to study with with me you can find more information about our online education courses MAs in Philosophy here at Staffordshire University. You can find out more information on our MA in Continental Philosophy via this link. Or, join our MA in Philosophy of Nature, Information and Technology via this link. Find out more about me here. September intakes F/T or January intakes P/T.
Dr Tiff Thomas' Public Articles:
The Philosophical Salon: ‘Silence is Violence’: Simone Weil on the Impossible Demands of Justice
Latest Publications:
Thomas, C (2022) ‘Simone Weil’s Venice Saved: Pity, Beauty, Friendship’ in Bloomsbury Library for 20th-Century French Thought
Thomas, C (2021) ‘Spinoza on Melancholy and Cheerfulness’ in Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review
Thomas, C (2020) ‘On Religious and Cultural Objects: Articulate and Inarticulate Bodies in Spinoza’s Philosophy of Nature’ in European Journal of Philosophy
Thomas, C (2020) ‘Simone Weil: The Ethics of Affliction and the Aesthetics of Attention’, in International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Thomas, C (2020) ‘Brancusi’s Golden Bird and Loy’s “Brancusi’s Golden Bird”: A Spinozist Encounter’ in Philosophy and Literature
On Secular Gurus with Chris Kavanagh
On Writing with Lars Iyer
On Richard Rorty with Chris Voparil
On Spiritual Freedom with Martin Hägglund
On Bruno Latour with Joost van Loon
On Alexandre Kojève with Hager Weslati
On the Truth of Snuff with Mark McKenna
On the Embrace of Capital with Don Milligan
On Architecture with Graham Harman
On Nietzsche’s Socialism with Robert Miner
On Michel Serres with David Webb
On the Formation of the Modern Self with Felix O’Murchadha
On Propaganda with Colin Alexander
On David Lewis and Possible Worlds with Ben Curtis
On Camus and 'The Plague' with Robert Zaretsky
On Character with Christian Miller
On Plato with Keith Crome
On Blockchain with Peter Howson
On Online Learning with David Webster
Join Podbean Ads Marketplace and connect with engaged listeners.
Advertise Today
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
강유원의 책담화冊談話
The Art of Manliness
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Arthur Brooks Show
Dear Hank & John