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Gabriel Marcel (1889– ) as a Phenomenologist

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The Phenomenological Movement

Part of the book series: Phaenomenologica ((PHAE,volume 6))

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In his pioneering survey of Phenomenology in France Jean Hering concludes his two-page discussion of Gabriel Marcel as “an independent phenomenologist” with the following statement: “We believe we may affirm that, even if German phenomenology (to suppose the impossible) had remained unknown in France, nevertheless a phenomenology would have been constituted there; and this, to a large extent, would be due to the influence of Gabriel Marcel.” Hering, an old-style phenomenologist and anything but an existentialist, supports this remarkable estimate by referring to Marcel’s “concern for research” and for exploring the “essence” of things without separating them from the consciousness that presents them to us; to his sense of the “inanity” of Weltanschauungsphilosophie; and to his concrete studies of such phenomena as “having,” which keep free from the “mania” of reducing the phenomena to “nothing but” something else.1

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Major Works

  • Journal métaphysique (1927; written in 1914 and 1915–1923) (JM) Translations: English (1952) by Bernard Wall — good

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  • La Métaphysique de Royce (1943; written 1917–18)

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  • Translation: English (1956) by V. and R. Ringer; with special preface by Marcel

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  • Etre et avoir (1935) (E.A.)

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  • Translation: English (1951) by K. Farrer — good, some errors Du Refus d l’invocation (1940) (R.I.)

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  • Translation: English (1949) by M. Harari in The Philosophy of Existence — not always accurate

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  • Le Mystère de l’être (1951). Gifford lectures. 2 vols. (ME)

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  • Translation: English (1951) by G. S. Fraser; there are considerable differences between the English version and the French, which appeared a year later. The translation is apparently quite free.

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  • Les Hommes contre l’humain (1952)

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  • Translation: English (1950) by G. S. Fraser

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  • L’Homme problématique (1955)

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Monographs

  • Gilson, Etienne, ed., Existentialisme chrétien: Gabriel Marcel (1947) Contains four analytical essays, followed by an autobiographical essay, translated in The Philosophy of Existence.

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  • Prini, Pietro, Gabriel Marcel e la Metodologia dell’ Inverificabile With interesting preface by Marcel; translated into French. RICOEUR, PAUL Gabriel Marcel et Karl Jaspers (1947) Analytical confrontation.

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  • Troisfontaines, Roger, S. J., De l’Existence d l’être. La philosophie de Gabriel Marcel. 2 vols. (1952). With preface by Marcel.

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Articles in English

  • Hocking, W. E., “Marcel and the Ground Issues of Metaphysics,”’PPR XIV, 439–69

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  • Ostermann, Robert, “G. Marcel (I) The Discovery of Being (II) The Recovery of Being, (III) Existence and the Idea of Being,” The Modern Schoolman XXXI (1953), 99–116, 289–305, XXXII (1954), 19–33

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Ph. D. Theses

  • Gallagher, Kenneth T., The Philosophical Method of Gabriel Marcel. [1] Fordham University, 1958

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Most Complete Recent Bibliographies

  • For Marcel’s own writings, see Troisfontaines, II, 381–425; for studies about Marcel, see Collins, James, The Existentialists (Chicago, 1952), [21 pp. 258 f.

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  1. Herbert Spiegelberg
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Spiegelberg, H. (1971). Gabriel Marcel (1889– ) as a Phenomenologist. In: The Phenomenological Movement. Phaenomenologica, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4744-8_3

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