PIERRE-JEAN LABARRIÈRE (1931-2018): HIS LIFE AND HEGELIAN PHILOSOPHICAL LEGACY

Abstract

This article aims to recall the Jesuit scholar Pierre-Jean Labarrière by reconstructing his biographical and intellectual path, as an expression of gra­titude and recognition for his mission. As a young, tireless and vigorous man, Labarrière already showed his intellectual abilities. Very attentive to the changes and challenges of history, he was not afraid to respond to the provocations of thinkers, such as Hegel, of whom he became a great scholar. Labarrière even took advantage of Hegel's thinking to address the numerous impasses faced by French Catholic Christianity.