Gabriel Marcel
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2008) Gabriel Marcel Born (1889-12-07)7 December 1889 Paris, France Died 8 October 1973(1973-10-08) (aged 83) Paris, France Era 20th-century philosophy Region Western Philosophy School Continental philosophy Existentialism Main interests Ontology · Subjectivity · Ethics Notable ideas "The Other" (autrui), concrete philosophy (philosophie concrète) Influences Bergson · Buber · Jaspers · Kierkegaard · Mauriac · Royce Influenced Boutang · Levinas · Percy · Wahl · Ricoeur 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' to define his own thought. The Mystery of Being is a well-known two-volume work authored by Marcel.