Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron


Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron is a French Roman Catholic philosopher. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Poitiers and Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Institut Catholique de Paris. He is the author of many books about Bergson and Hegel. He is an expert on spiritualism.

Early life

Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron was born in 1944. He graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in Saint-Cloud. He received a Doctorate and the Agrégation in Philosophy in 1976.

Career

Vieillard-Baron was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Poitiers, where he was the director of a research centre about Karl Marx and Hegel, later about Hegel and German idealism. Additionally, he was the recipient of fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct research at the Hegel-Archiv. He was also the founder and president of the Association Louis Lavelle in 1989.
Vieillard-Baron is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Institut Catholique de Paris. He is an expert on spiritualism.

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