Mystery of Being [Hardcover]

Gabriel Marcel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1951 | ISBN-10: 0404605044 | ISBN-13: 978-0404605049

Faith and Reality, the second volume of The Mystery of Being, expands Marcel's philosophical quest for the means of transcending our 'broken world' to the questions, What is Being? and What is the relation of existence to religious consciousness? Reissued by arrangement with Regnery Gateway, Inc.

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Text: English, French (translation)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Ams Pr Inc (June 1951)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0404605044
• ISBN-13: 978-0404605049
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,522,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intersubjectivity is the answer, December 8, 2004

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This review is from: Mystery Of Being Vol 2: Faith & Reality (Gifford Lectures, 1949-1950.) (Paperback)

There was a time in my life when I read and reread this work. This does not mean that I understood it fully. But the idea of 'intersubjectivity' and that it is through being with and understanding others that we become most truly human is one which had great influence on me. It took me away as I was looking to be taken away from a kind of philosophical solipsism a kind of sense that all should rest only in 'I' and 'I' that would prove upon reflection 'unstable as water'. Marcel is a humane thinker, one who tries to take us from the celebration of Nothingness and Death to the celebration of life in community with others. I doubt that he is read much today in the English- language world, but to my mind he is a very valuable and helpful thinker . A mensch of philosophy.