Gwendoline Jarczyk
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Gwendoline Jarczyk | |
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| Born | 23 August 1927 Katowice, Second Polish Republic |
| Died | 18 November 2021 (aged 94) Paris, France |
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental |
Gwendoline Jarczyk (23 August 1927 – 18 November 2021)[1] was a French philosopher, historian of philosophy and translator, specialising in Hegel and Master Eckhart.
Gwendoline Jarczyk was born in Katowice, Poland, in 1927 to a Polish father, a doctor, and a French mother from Normandy. 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, focusing mainly on two authors of whom she was a specialist: Meister Eckhart, a theologian of Rhenish mysticism from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and Hegel, a German philosopher from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[2]
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.[3]
She contributed to the Christian newspapers La Croix[4] and France Catholique Ecclesia[5] and publishes in the Jesuit journals Christus[6] and Études.[7]
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 in 1983, when he came to the Centre Sèvres. In 1997 she published her interfaith talks with Raimon Panikkar, an Indo-Spanish theologian, on the themes of the Divine, Man and the Cosmos.[8]
She has also taken an interest in the work of the Vietnamese Marxist philosopher Tran Duc Thao, whose correspondence with Alexandre Kojève she published with Labarrière, the author of the lessons on Hegel that became famous in France in the 1930s.[9]
In 2013, Jarczyk published L'Abîmement instaurateur dans la Logique de Hegel.[10]
