In search of the spiritual : Gabriel Marcel, psychoanalysis and the sacred / Paul Marcus.

Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the first French existentialist and phenomenologist, was a world-class Catholic philosopher, an accomplished playwright, drama critic and musician. He wrote brilliantly about many of the classic existential themes associated with Sartre, Heidegger, Jaspers and Buber, prio...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Marcus, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Karnac, 2012.
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Summary:Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the first French existentialist and phenomenologist, was a world-class Catholic philosopher, an accomplished playwright, drama critic and musician. He wrote brilliantly about many of the classic existential themes associated with Sartre, Heidegger, Jaspers and Buber, prior to the publication of their main works. Marcel regarded himself as a "homo viator," a spiritual wanderer: "If man is essentially a voyager, it is because he is en route ... towards an end which one can say at once and contradictorily that he sees and does not see." As a self-described "philosoph.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 218 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781782410324
1782410325