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PHILOSOPHER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriel Marcel has received more than 420,674 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Gabriel Marcel is the 201st most popular philosopher (up from 212th in 2019), the 467th most popular biography from France (up from 488th in 2019) and the 28th 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

Among philosophers, Gabriel Marcel ranks 201 out of 1,081Before him are Marquis de Condorcet, Georgi Plekhanov, George Herbert Mead, Paulo Freire, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, and Apollonius of Tyana. After him are Diogenes of Apollonia, Al-Ash'ari, Rudolf Carnap, Jean-François Lyotard, Moses Mendelssohn, and Julia Kristeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Gabriel Marcel ranks 17Before him are Ante Pavelić, Vaslav Nijinsky, Idris of Libya, Manuel II of Portugal, Igor Sikorsky, and Otto Frank. After him are Carl von Ossietzky, Paul Karrer, Louise Mountbatten, Gabriela Mistral, Han van Meegeren, and Carl Theodor Dreyer. Among people deceased in 1973, Gabriel Marcel ranks 24Before him are Abebe Bikila, Paavo Nurmi, Max Horkheimer, Anna Magnani, Henri Charrière, and Pablo Casals. After him are Ferdinand Schörner, Semyon Budyonny, Víctor Jara, J. Hans D. Jensen, Ragnar Frisch, and Jacques Maritain.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gabriel Marcel ranks 467 out of 6,011Before him are J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Roger Vadim (1928), François-Noël Babeuf (1760), Jean Dubuffet (1901), Paul Bocuse (1926), and Camille Desmoulins (1760). After him are Charles Messier (1730), Jacques Le Goff (1924), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), and Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Gabriel Marcel ranks 28Before him are Ernest Renan (1823), Pierre Bayle (1647), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), and Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714). After him are Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Gaston Bachelard (1884), Guy Debord (1931), François Fénelon (1651), and Jacques Maritain (1882).