Publications
Books
Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil: Decreation for The Anthropocene. Taylor and Francis Routledge Environmental Humanities Series, series ed. Benjamin Hale. 2024.
Reviews:
Griffiths, Emily. “Ecological Ethics of Simone Weil. Decreation for the Anthropocene.” International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 86, no. 5 (2025): 420–21. doi:10.1080/21692327.2026.2613801.
Davis, Benjamin P. “Kathryn Lawson. Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil: Decreation for the Anthropocene.” Environmental Ethics 47, no. 3 (2025): 349–52. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics2025473105.
Mickey, Sam. "Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil: Decreation for the Anthropocene by Kathryn Lawson." Environmental Philosophy 22, no. 2, (Fall 2025): 345-347.
https://doi.org/10.5840/envirophil2025222160
Pratama, Andika, Uyu Wahyudin, and Jajat Sudrajat Ardiwinata. “Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil; Decreation for the Anthropocene: By Kathryn Lawson,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2025.2457329.
Editor and Introduction to The Politics of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations. Bloomsbury. 2024.
Editor and Introduction to Breached Horizons: Essays on the Work of Jean Luc Marion. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Of Ethics and God: To What Extent is Simone Weil a Christian Thinker?” Philosophical Investigations. Forthcoming.
“Art and the Other: Aesthetic Intersubjectivity in Gadamer and Stein,” Symposium Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 2020), 74-91.
“The Ethical Imperative of Reincarnation in the Timaeus and the Bhagavad Gita,” Symposia: The Journal of Religion, University of Toronto, 2019. https://symposia.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/symposia/article/view/29347
Book Chapters
“Dark Nights of the Soul,” in Edith Stein and Simone Weil: Two Women in the 20th Century, eds. Anna Jani and Mátyás Szalay. Lexington. Forthcoming.
“Key Concepts: Attention,” The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil, eds. Deborah Casewell and Chistopher Thomas. 2026.
“Enacting Decreation,” in Rethinking Responses to Political Crisis and Collapse: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. ed. Antonio Calcagno and Mark Yenson. Lexington. 2026.
“Decreation” in Handbook of Simone Weil, ed. Lissa McCullough. Bloomsbury. 2026.
“Thinking and Teaching Ecological Resilience with Simone Weil,” in Development in Transition: Rethinking Rural Futures. Edited by Kerilyn Schewel, Benjamin P. Davis and D. Lee Miller (Pivot Press, 2026). https://doi.org/10.65566/kgh876kd.
“An Ethics of God’s Grace to Balance a Politics of Worldly Affliction: A Weilian Response to Roncalli on Arendt and the World” in The Politics of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations, eds. Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingston. Bloomsbury. 2024.
“One Hand Clapping: Anatheism and Contemporary Eastern Art” in The Art of Anatheism: Essays on the work of Richard Kearney, eds. Matthew Clemente and Richard Kearney. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.
Book Reviews
Review of The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil, by Cynthia Wallace. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, forthcoming.
“Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins, by Benjamin P. Davis”. The Review of Politics, Notre Dame University, forthcoming.
“The Pandemic of Force.” Review of Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way we Live, by Nicholas A. Christakis. Attention: The Life and Legacy of Simone Weil. Online. https://attentionsw.org/the-pandemic-of-force-a-weilian-review-of-apollos-arrow/ (2021).
Other
“Simone Weil, the attention economy, and the annihilation of autonomy,” in The Institute of Art and Ideas. March 27, 2026: https://iai.tv/articles/simone-weil-the-attention-economy-and-the-annihilation-of-autonomy-auid-3532
“The Joy of Literary Friendship,” in Each life a Poem: 20 Years of Halifax Humanities, eds. Susan Dodd, Neil Robertson, Camilla Thompson, and Victoria Goddard. 2026.
“Infinite Jest and the Life of the Mind” in FYP Journal: The Muse Edition, eds. Susan Dodd, Maria Euchner, and Amal Al-Noman. Winter 2026.
“Ethics for the End Times,” in Politics and Rights Review. Editor Karel J. Leyva. Ottawa, Canada. September 15, 2025: https://politicsrights.com/ethics-for-the-end-times/
Special Editor, “Simone Weil and the Good Use of School Studies,” Attention: The Life and Legacy of Simone Weil Journal, ed. Ron Collins. January 2025.
“Intolerably Stupid No More: Jane Austen,” FYP Journal: The Maenad Edition, eds. Susan Dodd, Maria Euchner, and Abigail McGhie. Winter 2025.
Decreation for the Anthropocene: Simone Weil and Ecological Ethics. Department of Philosophy Graduate Theses, Queen’s University. PhD Dissertation. 2022. https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/30301
“Attention in the Time of COVID-19.” Object Tales. Cambridge Faculty of Divinity Online.
The Tapestry of Memory. Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 4866. Master’s Thesis. 2017. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/4866