Michel Philibert
Michel Philibert (5 January 1921 – 8 July 1991) is a French philosopher. He is mainly known for his work in gerontology.
Biography
Michel Philibert was born at the 8th arrondissement of Paris. He first taught philosophy at the Lycée de Metz and then at the Lycée Champollion in Grenoble. During this period, he prepared his thesis, which he submitted in 1968, on the theme of aging. L'échelle des âges is among the first works that formulated the question of aging in philosophical terms.
As a student, Michel Philibert was permanent secretary general of the inter-faculty center, a section of "Peuple et Culture" created in Grenoble in 1944. Very active, he presided over the association "pour une maison de la culture" in Grenoble in 1964, and became the first president of the Association de gestion de la maison de la culture de Grenoble (now known as MC2) from 1968 to 1973. The directors were Luc Béraud, then Catherine Tasca.
Appointed lecturer and then professor of philosophy at the University of Grenoble, he teached at Sciences Po and gave public lectures on cinema.
He was a member of the Council of the Protestant Federation of France.
In 1970, he founded with Robert Hugonot, a geriatrician at the University Hospital of Grenoble, the Pluridisciplinary Center of Gerontology of Grenoble (CPDG). He directed this center until the end of the 1980s. He was also the founder (with Hugonot and Henri Péquignot) and editor-in-chief of the journal Gérontologie, at the initiative of the University of the Third Age.
With his "Manifesto for an inter-age university center in Grenoble", he encouraged the foundation of the Université Inter-Âges du Dauphiné (UIAD).
In Saint-Martin-d'Hères, the long-term care unit bears his name. He appears in René Allio's film, Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère...
Works
- Une Foi Adulte pour le Temps Présent (1962)
- Les Échelles d’Âge dans la Philosophie, la Science et la Société. De Leur Renversement et des Conditions de leur Redressement (1968)
- Paul Ricœur ou La Liberté selon l'Espérance (1971)
- Enfin du Temps pour l'Essentiel (1972; collaborator)
- La Gérontologie Sociale: Héritages et Réflexions Contemporaines (2012)
