Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel
Born	Gabriel Honoré Marcel (1889-12-07)7 December 1889 Paris, France
Died	8 October 1973(1973-10-08) (aged 83) Paris, France
Alma mater	University of Paris
Notable work	The Mystery of Being (1951)
Relatives	Henry Marcel (father)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Christian existentialism Existential phenomenology[1] Hermeneutic phenomenology Personalism
Main interests	Ontology subjectivity ethics
Notable ideas	"The Other" (autrui), concrete philosophy (philosophie concrète), being vs. having as opposing ways of defining the human person
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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.

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