Gabriel Marcel

French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist

1889   -   1973

movement: Christian existentialism
country of citizenship: France
native language: French
language of expression: French
educated at: University of Paris (1896-1968)
occupation: playwright, philosopher, literary critic, musician, writer
award received: Erasmus Prize, Peace Prize of the German Publishers' Association, Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française, Prix Brieux, Grand prix national des Lettres
position held: president
student of: Henri Bergson
influenced by: Arthur Schopenhauer, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Henri Bergson, Louis Lavelle

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Gabriel Honoré Marcel (1889–1973) 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.
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