Tag: Marcel

  • Wisdom’s Otherness: The Lessons of Gabriel Marcel

    The esteemed historian H. Stuart Hughes once argued that Gabriel Marcel—the father of Christian existentialism (a category that Marcel ironically rejected) and decorated author of more than one hundred plays, books, and essays—represented the pinnacle of Catholic thought in twentieth-century France. Marcel’s works, The Mystery of Being, The Existential Background

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  • Marcel Proust’s View from the Persecutor’s Side

    For the first-time reader of In Search of Lost Time, Proust’s sinuous sentences can feel convoluted and even taxing, demanding—without due cause—such a sustained attention that editions of Proust’s masterpiece released “for the modern reader” should be equipped with a medicinal preface that contains a filled prescription for Ritalin. This is

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