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Year: 2008
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ISBN 10: 9401205817 
ISBN 13: 9789401205818
Author: Brendan Sweetman

This book illustrates the profound implications of Gabriel Marcel’s unique existentialist approach to epistemology not only for traditional themes in his work concerning ethics and the transcendent, but also for epistemological issues, concerning the objectivity of knowledge, the problem of skepticism, and the nature of non-conceptual knowledge, among others. There are also chapters of dialogue with philosophers, Jacques Maritain and Martin Buber. In focusing on these themes, the book makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on Marcel.

The Vision of Gabriel Marcel Epistemology Human Person the Transcendent 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Foundational Concepts and Epistemology

  • Chapter 1: The Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel: An Overview
    • Life and Influences of Marcel
    • Existentialism vs. Concrete Philosophy
    • The Critique of Abstract Thought and Impersonal Reason
    • Primary and Secondary Reflection
  • Chapter 2: Problem vs. Mystery: The Core Distinction
    • Defining “Problem” (Objectifiable, Solvable)
    • Defining “Mystery” (Participated in, Unsolvable from a detached perspective)
    • Implications for Knowledge and Human Experience
    • Examples from Marcel’s Work
  • Chapter 3: Epistemology and Truth in Marcel’s Thought
    • Beyond Subject-Object Dualism
    • Truth as Participation and Fidelity
    • The Role of Experience and Concrete Situations
    • Critique of Positivism and Scientific Determinism

Part II: The Human Person and Interpersonal Relations

  • Chapter 4: Being and Having: A Fundamental Ontological Distinction
    • The Realm of “Having” (Possession, Utility, Detachment)
    • The Realm of “Being” (Participation, Availability, Communion)
    • Pathologies of “Having”: Despair, Alienation, Objectification
    • The Call to “Be”
  • Chapter 5: The Embodied Subject: My Body as Mine
    • The Body-Subject Relationship
    • Critique of the Body as a Mere Object
    • The Role of Sensibility and Suffering
    • Incarnation and Concrete Existence
  • Chapter 6: Intersubjectivity: The Other and Communion
    • The Discovery of the Other as a “Thou”
    • From “Having” to “Being” in Relationships
    • Availability (disponibilité) and Fidelity
    • Love, Hope, and Creative Faith in Interpersonal Relations
  • Chapter 7: Freedom, Responsibility, and Evil
    • Marcel’s Conception of Freedom
    • The Weight of Responsibility in Concrete Choices
    • The Reality of Evil and Suffering
    • The Role of Despair and Hope in the Face of Evil

Part III: The Transcendent and Religious Dimensions

  • Chapter 8: The Opening to Transcendence
    • From Human Experience to the Divine
    • The Limits of Rational Proofs for God
    • God as Mystery, Not Problem
    • The Experience of the Numinous
  • Chapter 9: Faith, Hope, and Love as Ontological Categories
    • Faith as a Mode of Being and Participation
    • Hope as an Active Endurance, Not Passive Optimism
    • Love as the Ultimate Expression of Being and Availability
    • These Virtues as Pathways to the Transcendent
  • Chapter 10: Prayer, Revelation, and the Sacred
    • The Nature of Prayer as Dialogue and Presence
    • Marcel’s Understanding of Revelation
    • The Concept of the Sacred in Everyday Life
    • The Sacramental Dimension of Existence
  • Chapter 11: Marcel’s Critique of Modernity and the Rediscovery of Being
    • The Crisis of the Modern World (Technocracy, Abstraction, Despair)
    • The Need for a Metaphysics of Hope
    • Marcel’s Enduring Relevance
    • Recapitulation of Key Themes

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