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Gabriel Marcel

1889 - 1973

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Gabriel Honoré Marcel (7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973) was a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist. The author of over a dozen books and at least thirty plays, Marcel's work focused on the modern individual's struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society. Though often regarded as the first French existentialist, he dissociated himself from figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, preferring the term philosophy of existence or neo-Socrateanism to define his own thought. The Mystery of Being is a well-known two-volume work authored by Marcel. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gabriel Marcel is the 242nd most popular philosopher (down from 210th in 2019), the 613th most popular biography from France (down from 512th in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Philosopher.

Gabriel Marcel was a philosopher, theologian, and dramatist. He is most famous for his philosophy of "Existentialism," which is the idea that people are free to make their own choices and are responsible for the consequences of those choices.

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Among philosophers, Gabriel Marcel ranks 242 out of 1,267. Before him are Nikolai Berdyaev, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Psellos, Prodicus, Franz Brentano, and Al-Jahiz. After him are Milarepa, Josef Breuer, George Herbert Mead, Pelagius, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and Shen Kuo.

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Among people born in 1889, Gabriel Marcel ranks 23. Before him are Thomas Midgley Jr., Manuel II of Portugal, Claude Rains, Gabriela Mistral, Idris of Libya, and Carl von Ossietzky. After him are Han van Meegeren, Louise Mountbatten, Otto Frank, Risto Ryti, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and Jacob L. Moreno. Among people deceased in 1973, Gabriel Marcel ranks 33. Before him are Max Horkheimer, Ragnar Frisch, Pablo Casals, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Selman Waksman, and Semyon Budyonny. After him are Walter Rudolf Hess, Víctor Jara, Ingeborg Bachmann, Gerard Kuiper, Jacques Maritain, and Hans Albert Einstein.

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Among people born in France, Gabriel Marcel ranks 613 out of 6,770. Before him are William Wyler (1902), Marcel Lefebvre (1905), Peter II of Courtenay (1155), Claude Chabrol (1930), Marcel Mauss (1872), and Marine Le Pen (1968). After him are Samuel de Champlain (1567), Boris Vian (1920), Albert Uderzo (1927), Paul Doumer (1857), Michel Piccoli (1925), and Caroline Bonaparte (1782).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Gabriel Marcel ranks 31. Before him are Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Joseph de Maistre (1753), and Gaston Bachelard (1884). After him are Roger Garaudy (1913), Nicole Oresme (1323), François Fénelon (1651), Sebastian Brant (1458), Raymond Aron (1905), and Bruno Latour (1947).

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