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17 de ene. de 2022 · Man against mass society. by. Marcel, Gabriel, 1889-1973. Publication date. 1962. Topics. Philosophical anthropology, Human beings, Mass society, Anthropologie philosophique. Publisher. Chicago : Henry Regnery. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. x, 273 pages ; 18 cm.
Theoretically, of course, we can imagine the possibility of man’s preserving a minimum of independence even in a society ruled on materialistic principles; but, as we ought to be immediately aware, this possibility is an evanescent one, implying contradictions: for freedom in such a society would consist, if I may put it so, in rendering ...
Man Against Mass Society. Gabriel Marcel, G.S. Fraser (Translation), Donald MacKenzie MacKinnon (Foreword) 4.05. 95 ratings12 reviews. The central theme of this important book is that we are paying the price of an arrogance that refuses to recognize mystery.
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Man Against Mass Society. Gabriel Marcel. St. Augustine's Press, 2008 - Philosophy - 205 pages. The central theme of this important book is that we are paying the price of an arrogance that...
- Life
- Freedom
- Participation
- Creative Fidelity
- Exigence
- Presence
- Hope and The Existential Self
- References and Further Reading
Gabriel Marcel was born in Paris in 1889, the city where he also died in 1973. Marcel was the only child of Henri and Laure Marcel. His father was a French diplomat to Sweden and was committed to educating his son through frequent travel across Europe. The death of his mother, in 1893 when Gabriel was not quite four years old left an indelible impr...
A strange inner mutation is spreading throughout humanity, according to Marcel. As odd as it first seems, this mutation is evoked by the awareness that members of humanity are contingent on conditions which make up the framework for their very existence. Man recognizes that at root, he is an existing thing, but he somehow feels compelled to prove h...
Marcel was an early proponent of what would become a major Sartrean existential tenet: I am my body. For Marcel, the body does not have instrumental value, nor is it simply a part or extension of the self. Instead, the self cannot be eradicated from the body. It is impossible for the self to conceive of the body in any way at all except for as a di...
For Marcel, to exist only as body is to exist problematically. To exist existentially is to exist as a thinking, emotive, being, dependent upon the human creative impulse. He believed that, “As soon as there is creation, we are in the realm of being,” and also that, “There is no sense using the word ‘being’ except where creation is in view,” (PGM x...
Dominating Marcel’s philosophical development was the intersection of his interest in the individuality of beings and his interest in the relations which bind beings together. An acceptable ontology must account for the totality of the lived experience, and so must have as a point of departure the fact that humans are fundamentally embodied. From t...
The term “presence” is used in various ways in the English language, although each connote a “here-ness” that indicates whether or not a subject was “here”. One of the differences in how we use the term is in the strength of a thing’s “here-ness”. Two people sitting in close physical proximity on an airplane might not be present to each other, alth...
The existential life that Marcel paints as possible for humanity is largely one of hope—but not one of optimism. Being in the world as body allows one to seek out new opportunities for the self, and so Marcelian hope is deeply pragmatic in that it refuses to compute all of the possibilities against oneself. But the picture is not rosy. Hope for Mar...
Bollnow, Otto Friedrich. “Marcel’s Concept of Availability,” In The Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel: The Library of Living Philosophers, 17. Edited by Paul Arthur Schlipp and Lewis Edwin Hahn. LaSa...Gallagher, Kenneth T. The Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel.NY: Fordham University Press, 1962. Abbreviated PGM.Marcel, Gabriel. “Autobiographical Essay,” In The Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel: The Library of Living Philosophers, 17. Edited by Paul Arthur Schlipp and Lewis Edwin Hahn. LaSalle, IL: Open Cour...Marcel, Gabriel. Being and Having. New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Abbreviated BH.MAN AGAINST MASS SOCIETY focuses on the "mass man, " who has been dehumanized in a society which reduces the person to the functions he performs, in which he has no distinctive worth and cannot claim to be unique and irreplaceable, and whose tragic result is that he may accept this abstract view of himself as final.
Man Against Mass Society. Gabriel Marcel. University Press of America, 1985 - Human beings - 273 pages. Other editions - View all. Man Against Mass Society
