Gabriel Marcel
French philosopher, playwright and music critic (1889–1973) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gabriel Honoré Marcel[lower-alpha 1] (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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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 |
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Notable ideas | "The Other" (autrui), concrete philosophy (philosophie concrète), being vs. having as opposing ways of defining the human person |
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