- Paperback: 237 pages
- Publisher: St. Augustine's Press; New edition edition (February 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 189031885X
- ISBN-13: 978-1890318857
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 16.3 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,450,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
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A message of hope, Feb 19 2008
By Stan Faryna - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mystery of Being: Volume 1, Reflection and Mystery (Paperback)
There is another answer to the existential question- an answer full of hope and not despair. Gabriel Marcel shows us a path to the beauty of who we are and who we can become.
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Tangency on a Holiday, Aug 15 2010
By Dana Garrett - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mystery of Being: Volume 1, Reflection and Mystery (Paperback)
This is a difficult book to read but not because of the difficulty of the subject matter or because Gabriel Marcel is abstruse like a Sartre or Heidegger. Rather, Marcel is difficult to read because he is very tangential. He veers off topic frequently into imagined objections to or issues about what he is presenting--objections and issues whose pertinence often seems inflated, trivial, or irrelevant.Almost as disturbing is Marcel's frequent habit of extensively referencing his other philosophical works and plays. While Marcel does mention other thinkers (e.g. Sartre), he does so mostly in passing. One gets the impression that he used the Gifford Lectures to market the oeuvre of Gabriel Marcel. Given that he delivered these lectures in the philosophically rich post World War 2 era (1949-1950), Marcel's work in volume 1 chronicles a disappointing missed opportunity for philosophical engagement.
None of this is to say that Marcel doesn't have his moments. He does, but, unfortunately, they are merely that: moments. His discussion of the human body is a case in point. He makes the interesting and potentially seminal claim that our sense of ownership of secondary and tertiary things arises from our felt ownership of our bodies. But he doesn't develop the insight with any depth because he launches into other considerations, ones (like the body should be understood as a subject and not an object) that would have served to progress the discussion of ownership had he presented them earlier in the discussion.
I found volume 1 so disappointing that I now have serious reservations about reading volume 2.
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