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In his pioneering survey of Phenomenology in France Jean Hering concluded his two-page discussion of Gabriel Marcel as “an independent phenomenologist” with the following statement: “We believe we may affirm that, even if German phenomenology (to suppose the impossible) had remained unknown in France, nevertheless a phenomenology would have been constituted there; and this, to a large extent, would be due to the influence of Gabriel Marcel.” Hering, an old-style phenomenologist and anything but an existentialist, supported this remarkable estimate by referring to Marcel’s “concern for research” and for exploring the “essence” of things without separating them from the consciousness that presents them to us; to his sense of the “inanity” of Weltanschauungsphilosophie; and to his concrete studies of such phenomena as “having,” which keep free from the “mania” of reducing the phenomena to “nothing but” something else.
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Major Works
Journal métaphysique (1927; written in 1914 and 1915–1923) (JM). Translation: English (1952) by Bernard Wall — good.
La Métaphysique de Royce (1943; written 1917–18). Translation: English (1956) by V. and R. Ringer; with special preface by Marcel.
Être et avoir (1935) (E.A.). Translation: English (1951) by K. Farrer — good, some errors.
Du Refus à l’invocation (1940) (B.I.). Translation by R. Rosthal (1964) as Creative Fidelity.
Homo viator, Prolégomènes à une métaphysique de l’espérance (1945) (H.V.) Translation: English (1951) by Emma Craufurd — readable, at times unnecessarily free.
Positions et approches du mystère ontologique (1949); first published in 1933 as an appendix to Le monde cassé. (PA). Translation: English (1949) by M. Harari in The Philosophy of Existence — not always accurate.
Le Mystère de l’être (1951) Gifford lectures. 2 vols. (ME). Translation: English (1950) by G. S. Fraser; there are considerable differences between the English version and the French, which appeared a year later. The translation is apparently quite free.
Les Hommes contre l’humain (1951). Translation: English (1952) by G. S. Fraser.
L’Homme problématique (1955).
Présence et immortalité (1959).
Fragments philosophiques (1909–1914) (1961).
La Dignité humaine (1964). Translated as The Existential Background of Human Dignity (Wm. James lectures) (1963).
Pour une sagesse tragique et son au-delà (1968). Translated by Stephen John and Peter McCormick (1973).
Monographs
GALLAGHER, KENNETH T., The Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel (1962).
GILSON, ÉTIENNE, ed., Existentialisme chrétien: Gabriel Marcel (1947). Contains four analytical essays, followed by an autobiographical essay, translated in The Philosophy of Existence.
PRINI, PIETRO, Gabriel Marcel e la Metodologia dell’ Inverificabile. With interesting preface by Marcel; translated into French.
RICOEUR, PAUL, Gabriel Marcel et Karl Jaspers (1947).
RICOEUR, P. et MARCEL, G., Entretiens (1968).
SOTTIAUX, EDGARD, Gabriel Marcel, philosophe et dramaturge (1956).
Troisfontaines, Roger. S. J., De l’Existence à l’être. La philosophie de Gabriel Marcel. 2 vols. (1952). With preface by Marcel.
Articles in English
HOCKING, W. E., “Marcel and the Ground Issues of Metaphysics,” PPR XIV, 439–69.
JARRETT-KERR, M., “Gabriel Marcel on Faith and Unbelief,” Hibbert Journal XLV (1947), 321–26.
OSTERMANN, ROBERT, “G. Marcel (I) The Discovery of Being (II) The Recovery of Being, (III) Existence and the Idea of Being,” The Modern Schoolman XXXI (1953), 99–116, 289–305, XXXII (1954), 19–33.
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For Marcel’s own writings, see Troisfontaines, II, 381–425; supplement in the second edition (1968) pp. 425–499.
WENNING, GERALD, Works by and about G. M., Southern Journal of Philosophy 4 (1966), 82–96.
LAPOINTE, FRANÇOIS AND CLAIRE, C. Gabriel Marcel and His Critics: An International Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1977.
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Spiegelberg, H. (1994). Gabriel Marcel (1889–1974) as a Phenomenologist. In: The Phenomenological Movement. Phaenomenologica, vol 5/6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7491-3_11
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