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A study examining Gabriel Marcel's concept of the human subject as a pense pensante which participates directly in the subjective life of being, since, in Marcellian theory, "blind intuition" pervades the whole life of human reason and frees it from the limitations of logic. ... Read more

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This study explores Marcel's understanding of hope as it relates to many categories, including: activity-act-life, anxiety-strangeness, availability-unavailability, being-having, captivity-trials, charity, communion-intersubjectivity, concrete philosophy, creativity, death, desire, despair, faith, prayer, sacrifice-suicide, and many others. In addition the book offers a spiritual biography of Marcel based on his two essays in autobiography, a bibliography of secondary material, and appendices which index Marcel's major passages on the themes described above. ... Read more

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Buy this if you are in search of wisdom
If you buy this book...you will not be sorry. Dr. Randall's writings and reflections on Marcel are some of the best critiques of a lost art of existentialist philosophy. Having him as an instructor for may years now... for someone to read his reflections on hope in Marcel, one can really sit back and relax in life and the future. ... Read more

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Marcel, who died in 1973, was essentially a philosophic dramatist; his plays deal with ideological conflicts, with man's relation to the universe and its laws, and his reaction to two world wars and the worlds they created. Lazaron provides a description of Marcel's life, describes his plays, and considers his position in twentieth century drama. ... Read more

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Taking up the question of otherness that so fascinates contemporary continental philosophy, Brian Treanor asks what it means for something or someone to be other than the self.

The philosophies of Emmanuel Levinas and Gabriel Marcel provide the point of embarkation for understanding the two positions on this question. Levinas and Marcel were contemporaries, whose philosophies exhibit remarkably similar concern for the other but nevertheless remain fundamentally incompatible. Thus, these two thinkers provide a striking illustration of both the proximity of and the unbridgeable gap between two accounts of otherness.

Aspects of Alterity delves into this debate, first in order understand the issues at stake in these two positions and second to determine which description better accounts for the experience of encountering the other. Treanor’s meticulously crafted account of a key concept will illuminate debates in philosophy, religion, and literary studies. ... Read more

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sane and faithful existentialism....
....as an alternative to the systematic despair of Sartre.Desponsibilite, re-collection, fidelity...the book is one crucial concept after another. ... Read more

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This Book Is In French. ... Read more

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This Book Is In French. ... Read more