 This apotheosizing of attention provides the basis for Weil’s claims about priorities for education. On these points, her position is shared by a number of other figures whose work sits at the interface of philosophy and literature (see Mole, 2017). Christopher Thomas has suggested that the role played by attention in Weil’s ‘ethics of affliction’ can be interpreted as an attempt to put some central notions from Kant’s aesthetic theory to ethical work (Thomas, 2020).