Gwendoline Jarczyk (23 August 1927 – 18 November 2021) was a French philosopher, historian of philosophy and translator, specialising in
Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealism, German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political phi ...
and
Master Eckhart.
Biography
Gwendoline Jarczyk was born in Katowice, Poland, in 1927 to a Polish father, a doctor, and a French mother from
Normandy
Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.
Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ...
. She left Poland in 1939 shortly before the outbreak of war.
Since then, she has lived in Paris and devoted herself to research and publications in philosophy and
mysticism
Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute (philosophy), Absolute, but may refer to any kind of Religious ecstasy, ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or Spirituality, spiritual meani ...
, focusing mainly on two authors of whom she was a specialist: Meister Eckhart, a
theologian
Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of ...
of
Rhenish mysticism from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and Hegel, a German philosopher from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Work
In the 1970s, G. Jarczyk prepared a doctorate in philosophy under the supervision of Paul Ricœur and defended her thesis ''Système et liberté dans la logique de Hegel'' (''System and Freedom in
Hegel's logic'') in 1979 at the
Paris Nanterre University
Paris Nanterre University (), formerly University of Paris West, Paris-X and commonly referred to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. It is one of the most pres ...
.
She contributed to the Christian newspapers
''La Croix'' and ''France Catholique Ecclesia'' and publishes in the Jesuit journals ''Christus'' and
''Études''.
With
Pierre-Jean Labarrière, a Jesuit, she has co-translated and commented on works by Hegel and Master Eckhart (see bibliography).
She has conducted several interviews with theologians from different religions. She spoke with
Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner (5 March 1904 – 30 March 1984) was a German Jesuits, Jesuit priest and theologian who, alongside Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Yves Congar, is considered to be one of the most influential Catholic theology, Cat ...
in 1983, when he came to the
Centre Sèvres
The Centre Sèvres is a university-level, Jesuit faculty of philosophy and theology on the Rue de Sèvres, in the heart of Paris. It was formed in 1974 from the merger of former Jesuit schools of philosophy at Lyon-Fourvière and philosophy at Cha ...
. In 1997 she published her interfaith talks with
Raimon Panikkar, an Indo-Spanish theologian, on the themes of the Divine, Man and the Cosmos.
She has also taken an interest in the work of the
Vietnamese
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* Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia
* Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam
** Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese people living outside Vietna ...
Marxist
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philosopher
Tran Duc Thao
Trần Đức Thảo (26 September 1917 – 24 April 1993) was a Vietnamese philosopher. His work (written primarily in French) attempted to unite phenomenology with Marxist philosophy. His work had some currency in France in the 1950s and 1960s ...
, whose correspondence with
Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève (born Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kozhevnikov; 28 April 1902 – 4 June 1968) was a Russian-born French philosopher and international civil service, civil servant whose philosophical seminars had some influence on 20th-century Frenc ...
she published with Labarrière, the author of the
lessons on Hegel that became famous in France in the 1930s.
In 2013, Jarczyk published ''L'Abîmement instaurateur dans la Logique de Hegel''.
Works
; Publications
* ''La Liberté religieuse. 20 ans après le Concile'', Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1984, 161 p.
* ''Éloge des libertés'', Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1992, 132 p., .
* ''Science de la logique. Hegel'', Paris, Ellipses, 1998, 64 p., .
* ''Le Négatif ou l'écriture de l'autre dans la logique de Hegel'', Paris, Ellipses, 1999, 624 p., , postface de
Pierre-Jean Labarrière.
* ''Le Mal défiguré. Étude sur la pensée de Hegel'', Paris, Ellipses, 2000, 288 p., .
* ''Système et liberté dans la logique de Hegel'', Paris, Kimé, 2001, 333 p., .
* ''Au confluent de la mort. L'universel et le singulier dans la philosophie de Hegel'', Paris, Ellipses, 2002, 256 p., , postface de
Pierre-Jean Labarrière.
* ''La Réflexion spéculative. Le retour et la perte dans la pensée de Hegel'', Paris, Kimé, 2004, 345 p., , postface de
Pierre-Jean Labarrière.
* ''Le Concept dans son ambiguïté. La manifestation du sensible chez Hegel'', Paris, Kimé, 2006, 308 p., , postface de
Pierre-Jean Labarrière.
* ''La Liberté ou l'être en négation. Rapport et unité relationnelle dans la logique de Hegel'', Paris, Kimé, 2010, 403 p., .
* ''L'Abîmement instaurateur dans la Logique de Hegel'', Paris, Kimé, 2013, 233 p., .
; Works in collaboration with
Pierre-Jean Labarrière
* ''Hegeliana'', Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1986, collection « Philosophie d'aujourd'hui », 368 p., .
* ''Le Syllogisme du pouvoir. Y a-t-il une démocratie hégélienne ? '', Paris, Aubier, 1992, Collection « Bibliothèque philosophique », 362 p., .
* ''Maître Eckhart ou l'empreinte du désert'', Paris, Albin Michel, 1995, Collection « Spiritualités vivantes », 262 p. ,. Format Kindle, 2013, .
* ''De Kojève à Hegel. 150 ans de pensée hégélienne en France'', Paris, Albin Michel, 1996, 272 p., .
* ''Le Vocabulaire de Maître Eckhart'', Paris, Ellipses, 2001, Collection « Vocabulaire de », 64 p. .
[Yves Roullière, « ''Jetez-vous en Dieu'' & Le vocabulaire de Maître Eckhart », ''Christus'', Lire et Méditer, , juillet 2001]
Lire en ligne
Réédition 2016,.
* ''« L'anneau immobile ». Regards croisés sur Maître Eckhart'', avec
Benoît Vermander
Benoît Vermander (born 1960), also known as Wei Mingde () and Bendu (), is a French Jesuit, sinologist, political scientist, and painter. He is currently professor of religious sciences at Fudan University, Shanghai, as well as academic director ...
et S. Bongiovanni, Éditions Facultés jésuites de Paris, 2005, 135 p., .
; Interviews
* .
*
Godfried Danneels
Godfried Maria Jules Danneels (4 June 1933 – 14 March 2019) was a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and the chairman of the Episcopal Conference of Belgium from 1979 to 2010. He was elevated to the car ...
, ''L'humanité de Dieu. Entretiens avec Gwendoline Jarczyk'', Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1994, 217 p., .
*
Claude Geffré
Claude Geffré (23 January 1926 – 9 February 2017) was a French Roman Catholic theologian. He became a Professor of Theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1965, and he was the director of the École Biblique in Jerusalem from 1996 to 199 ...
, ''Profession théologien. Quelle pensée chrétienne pour le XXIe siècle ?'', Paris, Albin Michel, 1999, 316 p., .
*
Mohammed Talbi, ''Penseur libre en Islam'', Paris, Albin Michel, 2002, 421 p., .
*
Salah Stétié
Salah Stétié () (28 September 1929 – 19 May 2020) was a Lebanese writer and poet who wrote in the French language. He also served in various diplomatic positions for Lebanon in countries such as Morocco and France. Although his mother tongue ...
, ''Fils de la Parole. Un poète d'Islam en Occident'', Paris, Albin Michel, 2004, 259 p., .
*
Daniel Farhi
Daniel Farhi (18 November 1941 – 23 August 2021) was a French liberal rabbi.
Biography
Early life
Farhi was born in Paris on 18 November 1941 to Samuel and Estréa Farhi, who were originally from İzmir, Turkey. During World War II, he was ...
, ''Profession rabbin. De la communauté à l'universel'', Paris, Albin Michel, 2006, 263 p., .
* .
*
Raimon Panikkar, ''Entre Dieu et le cosmos. Une vision non dualiste de la réalité'', Paris, Albin Michel, 2012, coll.
« Spiritualités vivantes », 274 p., .
; Translations
*
Karol Wojtyla
Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005.
In his youth, Wojtyła dabbled in stage acting. H ...
, ''Personne et acte'', trad. fr. Gwendolyne Jarczyk, annotations Aude Suramy, Paris, Parole et Silence (coll. Collège des Bernardins, n° 11), 2011, XXXIV-358 p.
; Translations with
Pierre-Jean Labarrière
*
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy and t ...
, ''
Phénoménologie de l'esprit'', Paris, Gallimard, 1993, 928., .
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ''Science de la logique. Premier tome : la logique objective'' (premier livre : la doctrine de l'être, version de 1832), Paris, Kimé, 2007, 622 p., .
*
Maître Eckhart, ''Les Sermons'', Paris, Albin Michel, 2009, 792 p., .
* Maître Eckhart, ''Les Traités et le Poème'', Paris, Albin Michel, 2011, 230 p., .
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ''Science de la logique. Second tome : la logique subjective'' (la doctrine du concept), Paris, Kimé, 2014, 420 p., .
; Articles
* « Totalité et mouvement chez Hegel », ''Laval théologique et philosophique'', Vol. 37, 1981, ,
Lire en ligne
* « Logic behind Consciousness », ''Revue Internationale de Philosophie'', , 2007/2,
Notes and references
External links
* https://www.persee.fr/authority/171106
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21st-century French philosophers
20th-century French philosophers
1927 births
2021 deaths
French women philosophers
German–French translators
Paris Nanterre University alumni
People from Katowice
Hegel scholars