Gabriel Marcel


"...Existentialism stands to-day at a parting of the ways: it is, in the last analysis, obliged either to deny or to transcend itself. It denies itself quite simply when it falls to the level of infra-dialectical materialism. It transcends itself, or it tends to transcend itself, when it opens itself out to the experience of the suprahuman, an experience which can hardly be ours in a genuine and lasting way this side of death, but of which the reality is attested by mystics, and of which the possibility is warranted by any philosophy which refuses to be immured in the postulate of absolute immanence or to subscribe in advance to the denial of the beyond and of the unique and veritable transcendence. Not that there is anything in this which, in our itinerant condition, we can invest like capital; this absolute life can be apprehended by us only in flashes and by virtue of a hidden initiative which can be nothing other than grace."
                                                                                                                               - Gabriel Marcel

This page is currently under construction, but, in the meantime, check out the links below!

Links
Katharena Eiermann's Marcel page
Notes on Marcel from  Association Presence De Gabriel Marcel (in English)
Review of Gabriel Marcel's Being and Having by Pierre Colin
Review of Gabriel Marcel's Men Against Humanity by Paul Ricoeur
Review of Gabriel Marcel's The Mystery of Being by Pierre Colin
"Reflection on Marcel's 'On the Ontological Mystery'" by John Barch
"Curiosity: Answering the Knock of Relationship" by Liam Atchison
"Marcel as Counselor: Four Ideas Toward Other-Centered Repentance" by Liam Atchison

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