On the Soul as Metaxy and the Place where Art is Born in Simone Weil

Abstract

Simone Weil uses the notion of soul to make her way beyond the horizon of phenomenality critically established by modern subjectivity. However, the Weilian way does not lead to an abandonment of the subjective polarity that interfaces with reality nor to a purely aesthetic turn of thought for which the primacy of the subject is replaced by that of the “other than the subject”, but to a re-articulation founded on the metaxological character of the soul. From this point of view, the ψυχή appears as the place of an erotic from which the possible mediation between sensitive and intelligible begins, a space of authentic inspiration and the first worksite of any kind of “art”.