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This edition of Marcel’s inspiring Homo Viator has been updated
to includle fifty pages of new materials available for the first
time in English, making this the first English-language edition to
conform to the standard French edition. Here, Christianity’s
foremost existentialist of the twentieth century gives us a
prodigious personal insight on ‘man on the way’ that will
reinforce and commend our own pilgrimages in hope. “Homo Viator
– “Homo Viator – or as Marcel calls him, ‘itinerate man’
– is an outstanding example of the philosophy concerned, not with
technical problems, but with the urgent problems of man. Marcel
talks to our condition, emphasizing our urgent need of hope, thus
discovering beyond the lack of stability the values on which we may
depend.  “A subtle mind, a dramatist as well as a
philosopher, close to the texture of human experience, he goes far
beyond current platitudes to show that our Western tradition
contains living truths that are as essential to our contemporary
life as they were to our ancestors when they discovered them.â€
– Eliseo Vivas “The theme of Marcel’s Homo Viator is close to
the center of all preoccupations: man in his pilgrim condition.
With great virtuosity in the use of his own philosophical method,
he probes into interpersonal relations and the threat to ethical
values. Marcel excels here in his concrete analyses of the attitude
of hope, the family community in its temporal and supratemporal
aspects, and the forgotten virtue of personal fidelity.†–
James Collins Â
This important collection of lectures and essays was regarded by
Gabriel Marcel as the best introduction to his thought. Outstanding
in the richness of its analyses and in its application of Marcel's
"concrete approach" to philosophical problems, Creative Fidelity
not only deals with the perennial Marcellian themes of faith,
fidelity, belief, incarnate being, and participation, but includes
chapters on religious tolerance and orthodoxy and an important
critical essay on Karl Jaspers.
Known in this country as a Christian Existentialist, Marcel
preferred to be called a "Neo-Socratic, " a label suggesting the
dialogical, unfinished nature of his speculations. He may best be
described as a Reflective Empiricist.
Born in Paris in 1889, the son of a French minister to
Stockholm, Marcel frequented literary and political milieus,
traveled extensively, and read widely in both German and
Anglo-American philosophy. His best known books are Being and
Having (1935), Man Against Mass Society (1952), and The Decline of
Wisdom (1954).
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Music played a central role in the thought of existentialist
philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973). One of the most tantalizing
claims he made was in a set of conversations with Paul Ricoeur.
Employing a geographic metaphor, he claimed that philosophy was the
continent of his work while his plays formed the off-shore islands;
but what was deepest was music as the water that conjoins the two.
One who wishes to understand how he thought of music will find that
his philosophical writings contain only a few, quasi-aphoristic,
though significantly penetrating things about the nature of music
and its relation to his thought. Disappointingly, neither his short
"An Essay in Autobiography" of 1947 nor his larger autobiography of
1971, Awakenings, adds much to that beyond a few remarks. But the
latter work makes reference to an article, "La musique dans mon vie
et mon oeuvre," a lecture he delivered in Vienna in 1959, that
turned out to be a significantly richer source. And if one turns to
his bibliography, one discovers that, as a music critic, Marcel
published over 100 items on music--including Musique dans mon vie"!
None of them are available in English. Those of greater length and
philosophical interest were gathered together, along with several
shorter representative pieces, in the work entitled L'esthetique
musicale de Gabriel Marcel that appeared in the Presence de Gabriel
Marcel series. In order to enrich and deepen the appreciation of
Marcel's thought in the English-speaking world by following up his
understanding of the central role of music in his thought, but also
to underscore the central role of music in his thought, but also to
underscore the central importance of the aesthetic inhuman
experience, we have selected the main articles that appeared in
that work for translation here. Marcel complained that (as of 1959)
commentators had not paid significant attention to the close
connection between music and philosophy. The present text should
remedy that.
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Awakenings (Paperback)
Peter Rogers; Gabriel Marcel
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The publication of this translation of Gabriel Marcel's
autobiography, En chemin, vers quel eveil? is timely because of the
renewed relevance and importance of his life and work to the
postmodern situation. The relation of his autobiography to his
productive projects is clearly tied to the unifying thread of
creativity, which, as the primary dimension of the mystery of
being, gives rise to his music, drama, and philosophical
reflection. This autobiography fosters the retrieval of the sense
of the mystery of being, thus reorienting philosophy as an
awakening of the creativity at the heart of this sense of being.
His narrative is a serious and creative interpretation of the
unified sense of his life and work.
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