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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates the profound implications of Gabriel Marcel’s unique existentialist approach to epistemology not only for traditional themes in his work concerning ethics and the transcendent, but also for epistemological issues, concerning the objectivity of knowledge, the problem of skepticism, and the nature of non-conceptual knowledge, among others. There are also chapters of dialogue with philosophers, Jacques Maritain and Martin Buber. In focusing on these themes, the book makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on Marcel.
Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword by Kenneth A. Bryson Foreword by Kathleen Rose Hanley Acknowledgement List of Abbreviations Introduction ONE: Marcel’s Critique of Cartesianism TWO: Human Being as a Being-in-a-Situation THREE: The Objectivity of Knowledge FOUR: Secondary Reflection, Ethics, and the Transcendent FIVE: Religious Experience, and the Affirmation of God SIX: A Marcelian Critique of the Problem of Skepticism SEVEN: Marcel and Traditional Philosophical Problems EIGHT: Non-Conceptual Knowledge: Marcel and Maritain NINE: From an Epistemological Point of View: Buber and Marcel Notes Bibliography About the Author Index
