Pierre-Jean Labarrière

Pierre-Jean Labarrière (June 21, 1931 – July 12, 2018) was a French Jesuit and philosopher.

Biography Pierre-Jean Labarrière was born on June 21, 1931. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1949 and became ordained as a Catholic priest in 1963.

He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Pontifical Gregorian University, then docteur d'État in philosophy (1980), he was professor of philosophy at the Centre Sèvres Faculty of Philosophy, before teaching philosophy from 1983 at the Catholic University of Paris.

His main non-Christian inspirations were Plato, Kant and, above all, Hegel.

Throughout his life, he worked in collaboration with Gwendoline Jarczyk, in particular on Master Eckhart and Hegel.

Labarrière died on July 12, 2018, at the age of 87.