Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Honor Marcel was a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist. The author of over a dozen books and at least thirty plays, Marcels work focused on the modern individuals struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society. Though often regarded as the first French existentialist, he dissociated himself from figures such as JeanPaul Sartre, preferring the term Philosophy of Existence to define his own thought. The Mystery of Being is a wellknown twovolume work authored by Marcel.

Marcel was born in and died in Paris. His mother died when he was young and he was brought up by his aunt and father. When he was eight he moved to Stockholm for a year where his father was Minister Plenipotentiary.

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