(P/B) TRAGIC WISDOM AND BEYOND

Παρουσίαση

This is not the place to attempt what Gabriel Marcel himself has neither wanted nor accomplished-a synoptic presentation of his philosophical concerns. What may be worthwhile, however, is to call attention briefly to several features of this book which may not be immediately evident and which do enhance its philosophical interest.
In one sense, Marcel's philosophy requires little introduction now. For a number of American philosophers have first-hand acquaintance with much of his work, which has been available in translation since before the Second World War. Moreover, some have heard him present the William James Lectures at Harvard, which were later published under the title The Existential Background of Human Dignity. Some years previously his two-volume Gifford Lectures, The Mystery of Being, had already reached a large audience. Since then, with the deepening understanding of Merleau-Ponty's work (which the Northwestern Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy has helped immeasurably), the importance of Marcel's work has only grown. For Marcel's early conceptual struggles with the idealism of Schelling, Royce, and Bradley (he has written a book on Schelling as well as one on Royce) and his analyses of sensation and objectivity not only made possible some of the central arguments Merleau-Ponty groped toward in The Structure of Behavior and then masterfully delineated in Phenomenology of Perception; they were contributions in their own right. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Acknowledgments
Translator's Preface - Peter McCormick
Translator's Introduction - Stephen Jolin
Author's Preface
TRAGIC WISDOM AND BEYOND
What Can Be Expected of Philosophy?
The Responsibility of the Philosopher in Today's World
Authentic Humanism and Its Existential Presuppositions
The Questioning of Being
Truth and Freedom
Truth and Concrete Situations
Life and the Sacred
My Death
The Encounter with Evil
Man and His Future
Philosophical Atheism
Philosophy, Negative Theology, and Atheism
Passion and Wisdom in the Context of Existential Philosophy
Toward a Tragic Wisdom and Beyond
CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN PAUL RICOEUR AND GABRIEL MARCEL
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