Rebecca Rozelle-Stone

Existentialism & Phenomenology

Feminist Philosophy

Introductory and Advanced Ethics

Death & Dying

phenomenology of fatigue (including compassion fatigue)

feminist philosophies

ethics of attention

Simone Weil

20th and 21st century continental (European) philosophy

BOOKS

Author, Simone Weil: A Very Short Introduction                                                            2024

Editor, Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield International)      2017

Co-author, Simone Weil and Theology (Bloomsbury T&T Clark)                                      2013

Co-editor, The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later (Bloomsbury)      2009

INTERVIEWS

"Neglected Practices: Attentiveness," The Minefield, ABC Radio National                        2021

"Fatigue: The Emotional Cost of the Moral Life?" The Minefield, ABC Radio National

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/theminefield/rebecca-rozelle-stone/13301926

RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS

"Seize Hold of the Hunger: Simone Weil's Ethical Eros," Chapter 4, Reframing Twentieth  05/2023

Century French Philosophy: The Roots of Desire, Ed. Elodie Boublil (Lexington Books)

“Simone Weil, Sara Ahmed, and a Politics of Hap,” Chapter 4, Simone Weil: Beyond        12/2020            

Ideology, Eds., S. Bourgault and J. Daigle (Palgrave MacMillan)

https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030484002

“Attending to the Outlaw,” Introduction, Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy            11/2017

            (Rowman & Littlefield International) 

“Simone Weil and the Problem of Fatigue,” Chapter 8, Simone Weil and Continental        11/2017

            Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield International)

SELECT ARTICLES / ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

"When Tragedy Becomes Banal: Why News Consumers Experience Crisis Fatigue"         09/2022

             The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/when-tragedy-becomes-banal-why-news-consumers-experience-crisis-fatigue-187756

“Elastic Worker: Time-Sense, Energy, and the Paradox of Resilience,” Philosophical          04/2020

            Investigations, Vol. 43: 1-2, (January-April 2020), 177-196.

“Fatigue: Obstacle or Necessary Counterpart to Moral Attention?” On Second Thought      02/2020

            Magazine, (Humanities North Dakota), Spring 2020.

            https://onsecondthoughtmagazine.humanitiesnd.org/rebecca-rozelle-stone.html

“Ways of Being in the All-Too-Present Body: Attending to and through Chronic Pain,”        05/2019

            Chiasma: A Site for Thought, Issue 5 “To Be a Body?” (Spring 2019), 129-153.

             https://chiasma-journal.com/5-to-be-a-body/

“Countering the Achievement Society,” iai news (The Institute of Art and Ideas)                08/2018

      https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/should-we-rediscover-education-as-leisure-auid-1109?access=ALL

Co-author with Benjamin P. Davis, “Simone Weil,” Stanford Encyclopedia of                       03/2018

            Philosophy entry: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simone-weil/ 

“La langue blessée de Weil et de Chrétien,” Tumultes, No. 46 [Oppressions et liberté]         05/2016

            (May 2016), 143-156.

"Le Déracinement of Attention: Simone Weil on the Institutionalization of Distractedness,"    2009

             Philosophy Today, Vol. 53, Issue 1, (Spring 2009), 100-108.

"Forgiveness through Attention: Simone Weil's Critique of the Imagination," Sacred Web:     2005

             A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, Vol. 15 (Summer 2005), 121-138.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS    

“Attention and Moral Fatigue in Desert-Worlds: Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt on               03/2020

Responding to Political Collapse,” invited keynote lecture for Rethinking Responses

to Political Crisis and Collapse: Hannah Arendt, Edith Stein, Rosa Luxemburg and

Simone Weil at King’s University College at Western University, London, Ontario,

March 6-8, 2020.   

“Affect Aliens: Simone Weil and Sara Ahmed on the Ideology of Happiness,”                         04/2018

            American Weil Society Colloquy, University of Ottawa, April 20-21, 2018.

“(Why) Should I Care? Feminist Praxis and Economies of Care in the Neoliberal                     10/2016

            University,” 16th Annual Red River Women’s Studies Conference,

            University of North Dakota, October 28, 2016.

“Simone Weil and the Problem of Fatigue,” 2016 American Weil Society Colloquy,                  04/2016

            New Orleans, LA, April 15-16, 2016.

“Supernatural Fatigue and Fatigue of the Supernatural” Society for Phenomenology                10/2015

            and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) 54th Annual Conference, in Atlanta, GA,

            October 8-10, 2015.

"La langue blessée de Weil et de Chrétien," Altérités, différences et résonances. La pensée      10/2014

             de Simone Weil: un lieu de rencontres, Université Paris Diderot, October 2-3, 2014.

Ph.D. (Philosophy), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

M.A. (Philosophy), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

B.A. (Philosophy, Writing), Birmingham-Southern College