Homo Viator

by Marcel, Gabriel

• ISBN13: 9781587313615
• ISBN10: 1587313618
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-10
• Publisher: St Augustine Pr Inc

Summary

This edition of Marcel's inspiring Homo Viator has been updated to includle fifty-seven pages of new material available for the first time in English, making this the first English-language edition to conform to the standard French edition. Here, Christianity's foremost existentialist of the twentieth century gives us a prodigious personal insight on 'man on the way' that will reinforce and commend our own pilgrimages in hope. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Gabriel Marcel's many works include philosophy, drama, and poetry. He was the Gifford laureate in 1950-51, published as the two-volume Mystery of Being (St. Augustine's Press). Also available from St. Augustine's by Marcel: Man against Mass Society Thou Shall Not Die! and A Gabriel Marcel Reader, edited by Brendan Sweetman.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
The Ego and Its Relation to Others	p. 7
Sketch of a Phenomenology and a Metaphysic of Hope	p. 23
The Mystery of the Family	p. 62
The Creative Vow as Essence of Fatherhood	p. 91
Obedience and Fidelity	p. 118
Value and Immortality	p. 128
Dangerous Situation of Ethical Values	p. 148
Being and Nothingness	p. 159
The Refusal of Salvation and the Exaltation of the Man of Absurdity	p. 178
Rilke: A Witness to the Spiritual: Part I	p. 205
Rilke: A Witness to the Spiritual: Part II	p. 232
Appendices
The Rebel	p. 261
Pascalian Philosophy	p. 279
Death and Immortality	p. 282
Religious Experience and Intelligibility in the Work of Gabriel Marcel by Pierre Colin	p. 297
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