The Metaphysician of Love: An Introduction to Louis Lavelle
For A.-D. Sertillanges, the Catholic philosopher Louis Lavelle (1883-1951) was truly “the Plato of our days.”[1] Jean-Louis Vieillard-Barron too affirmed that his was “the only great metaphysical synthesis in twentieth-century France.”[2] Yet it is easy to see what a sui generis position Lavelle assumed within the intellectual culture of his