Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel
Born
Gabriel Honoré Marcel

(1889-12-07)7 December 1889
Paris, France
Died8 October 1973(1973-10-08) (aged 83)
Paris, France
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Notable workThe Mystery of Being (1951)
RelativesHenry Marcel (father)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School
Main interests
Notable ideas
"The Other" (autrui), concrete philosophy (philosophie concrète), being vs. having as opposing ways of defining the human person
Signature

Gabriel Honoré Marcel[a] (7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973) was a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist. The author of over a dozen books and at least thirty plays, Marcel's work focused on the modern individual's struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society. Though often regarded as the first French existentialist, he dissociated himself from figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, preferring the term philosophy of existence or neo-Socrateanism to define his own thought. The Mystery of Being is a well-known two-volume work authored by Marcel.

  1. ^ Paul T. Brockelman, Existential Phenomenology and the World of Ordinary Experience: An Introduction, University Press of America, 1980, p. 3.


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