"...Existentialism stands to-day at a parting of the ways: it is,
in the last analysis, obliged either to deny or to transcend itself. It
denies itself quite simply when it falls to the level of infra-dialectical
materialism. It transcends itself, or it tends to transcend itself, when
it opens itself out to the experience of the suprahuman, an experience
which can hardly be ours in a genuine and lasting way this side of death,
but of which the reality is attested by mystics, and of which the possibility
is warranted by any philosophy which refuses to be immured in the postulate
of absolute immanence or to subscribe in advance to the denial of the beyond
and of the unique and veritable transcendence. Not that there is anything
in this which, in our itinerant condition, we can invest like capital;
this absolute life can be apprehended by us only in flashes and by virtue
of a hidden initiative which can be nothing other than grace."
- Gabriel Marcel
This page is currently under construction, but, in the meantime, check out the links below!
Links
Katharena
Eiermann's Marcel page
Notes on
Marcel from Association Presence De Gabriel Marcel (in English)
Review
of Gabriel Marcel's Being and Having by Pierre Colin
Review
of Gabriel Marcel's Men Against Humanity by Paul Ricoeur
Review
of Gabriel Marcel's The Mystery of Being by Pierre Colin
"Reflection
on Marcel's 'On the Ontological Mystery'" by John Barch
"Curiosity:
Answering the Knock of Relationship" by Liam Atchison
"Marcel
as Counselor: Four Ideas Toward Other-Centered Repentance" by Liam Atchison
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