Gabriel Marcel

1889 - 1973

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Movement: Christian existentialism

Country of citizenship: France

Native language: French

Languages spoken, written or signed: French

Educated at: University of Paris

Occupation: playwright, philosopher, literary critic, musician, writer

Award received: Erasmus Prize, Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française, Prix Brieux, Grand prix national des Lettres, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris

Position held: president

Student of: Colegio Maristas de San Isidro

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 (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. Source: Wikipedia (en)