GABRIEL MARCEL
Gabriel (-Honoré) MarcelFirst published Tue Nov 16, 2004; substantive revision Wed Nov 17, 2004Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) was a philosopher, drama critic, playwright and musician. He converted to Catholicism in 1929 and his philosophy was later described as “Christian Existentialism” (most famously in Jean-Paul Sartre's “Existentialism is a Humanism”) a term he initially endorsed but later repudiated. In addition to his numerous philosophical publications, he was the author of some thirty dramatic works. Marcel gave the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen in 1949-1950, which appeared in print as the two-volume The Mystery of Being, and the William James Lectures at Harvard in 1961-1962, which were collected and published as The Existential Background of Human Dignity.1. Biographical Sketch2. The Broken World and the Functional Person3. Ontological Exigence4. Transcendence5. Being and Having6. Problem and Mystery7. Primary and Secondary Reflection8. The Spirit of Abstraction9. Disponibilité and Indisponibilité10. “With”11. Reciprocity12. Opinion, Conviction, Belief13. Creative Fidelity14. Hope15. Marcel in Dialogue
