Gabriel Marcel, Embodiment, and Being with Steve Knepper
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Gabriel Marcel's Fascination with Human Experience and Existentialism
This chapter discusses Gabriel Marcel's deep interest in experience and existentialism, exploring his fascination with the meaning of being human. It highlights Marcel's formative experience during World War I and how it shaped his perspective on problem solving and bureaucracy. The chapter also delves into Marcel's emphasis on the sense of mystery and particularity in human experience, and his concern about the diminishing ability to be present to others in modernity.
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