In search of the spiritual : Gabriel Marcel, psychoanalysis and the sacred / Paul Marcus.

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Marcus, Paul

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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Karnac, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 218 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781782410324
1782410325

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001.09 22

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BF173 .M37 2012eb

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Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; CHAPTER TWO Creative experience as the birthplace of the transcendent; CHAPTER THREE On refinding God during chemotherapy; CHAPTER FOUR Reflections on moments of grace; CHAPTER FIVE On the quiet virtue of humility; CHAPTER SIX Summoned to courage; CHAPTER SEVEN Maintaining personal dignity in the face of the mass society; CHAPTER EIGHT On fidelity and betrayal in love relationships; CHAPTER NINE The kiss; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX.

Summary: Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the first French existentialist and phenomenologist, was a world-class Catholic philosopher, an accomplished playwright, drama critic and musician. He wrote brilliantly about many of the classic existential themes associated with Sartre, Heidegger, Jaspers and Buber, prior to the publication of their main works. Marcel regarded himself as a "homo viator," a spiritual wanderer: "If man is essentially a voyager, it is because he is en route ... towards an end which one can say at once and contradictorily that he sees and does not see." As a self-described "philosoph.

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Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the first French existentialist and phenomenologist, was a world-class Catholic philosopher, an accomplished playwright, drama critic and musician. He wrote brilliantly about many of the classic existential themes associated with Sartre, Heidegger, Jaspers and Buber, prior to the publication of their main works. Marcel regarded himself as a "homo viator," a spiritual wanderer: "If man is essentially a voyager, it is because he is en route ... towards an end which one can say at once and contradictorily that he sees and does not see." As a self-described "philosoph.

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