Mystery of Being

by Gabriel Marcel

Publisher: London: Harvill Press Publication date: 19 Subjects: Consciousness Ontology Faith Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Genres: Philosophy, Religion

1 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973) was a philosopher, drama critic, playwright and musician. He converted to Catholicism in 1929 and his philosophy was later described as “Christian Existentialism” (most famously in Jean-Paul Sartre's “Existentialism is a Humanism”) a term he initially endorsed but later repudiated. In addition to his numerous philosophical publications, he was the author of some thirty dramatic works. Marcel gave the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen in 1949–1950, which appeared in print as the two-volume The Mystery of Being, and the William James Lectures at Harvard in 1961–1962, which were collected and published as The Existential Background of Human Dignity.

Reviews

[Matthew Martens · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Only by not being afraid of the lion, but of the fear in you that makes you afraid of the lion, can fear be overcome.

In this area I am a total flop."

(Joe Brainard)