Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel
Marcel in 1951
Born	Gabriel Honoré Marcel (1889-12-07)7 December 1889 Paris, France
Died	8 October 1973(1973-10-08) (aged 83) Paris, France
Relatives	Henry Marcel (father)
Education
Education	University of Paris (MA, 1910)
Academic advisor	Henri Bergson
Philosophical work
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental Christian existentialism Existential phenomenology Personalism
Notable students	Paul Ricœur
Main interests	Ontology subjectivity ethics
Notable works	The Mystery of Being (1951)
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 (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.