The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil. Edited by E. Jane Doering and Eric O. Springsted.

Ancient world 882 (Plato/Weil, Simone, 1909-1943). The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil. Edited by E. Jane Doering and Eric O. Springsted. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, xii, 252 pages, illus. Brand new hardcover, still in plastic wrap. $27.50

A group of renowned international scholars seek to discern the ways in which Simone Weil was indebted to Plato, and how her provocative readings of his work offer challenges to contemporary philosophy, theology and spirituality.

Contents: Simone Weil and Platonism: an introductory reading/ Louis Dupré -- The limits and significance of Simone Weil's Platonism/ Michel Narcy -- Transcendence, immanence, and practical deliberation in Simone Weil's early and middle years/ Michael Ross -- Simone Weil: completing Platonism through a consistent materialism/ Robert Chenavier -- The Christian materialism of Simone Weil/ Patrick Patterson and Lawrence E. Schmidt -- Simone Weil and the divine poetry of mathematics/ Vance G. Morgan -- To on: a nameless something over which the mind stumbles/ Florence de Lussy -- Reconstructing Platonism: the Trinitarian metaxology of Simone Weil/ Emmanuel Gabellieri -- Freedom/ Martin Andic -- Countermimesis and Simone Weil's Christian Platonism/ Cyril O'Regan -- I dreamed I saw St. Augustine -- / Eric O. Springsted -- Simone Weil: the impossible / David Tracy.