Gabriel Marcel

Also known as Gabriel Honore Marcel

French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)

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Gabriel Marcel was a French philosopher and playwright who developed a major form of Christian existentialism in the 20th century. His work matters because he explored how people find meaning through relationships, faith, and personal existence, influencing both philosophy and theology in ways that continue to shape how we think about human connection and purpose.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 102

Top works

The Mystery of Being 2. Faith and Reason
Mystery of Being II
royces metaphysics
ROme N'est Plus Dans Rome
Presence et Immortalite (Homo-Sapiens)

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: France
Active from: 1889
Active to: 1973

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 465
Total plays: 785

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Cutadapt removes adapter sequences from high-throughput sequencing reads
· 2011 · cited 29,661x
The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 25,612x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,944x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x
SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor
· 2020 · cited 17,294x

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Quotes

“Life in a world centred on function is liable to dispair because in reality the world is empty, it rings hollow; and if it resist this temptation it is only to the extent that there comes into plat from within it and in its favour certain hidden forces which are beyond its power to conceive or to recognise.”
“Being is - or should be - necessary.”
“When the pessimist Besme says in La Ville that nothing is, he means precisely this, that there is no experience that withstands the analytical test.”
“I am therefore led to assume or to recognise a form of participation which has the reality of a subject; this participation cannot be, by definition, an object of thought; it cannot serve as a solution - it appears beyond the realm of problems: it is metaproblematical.”
“No doubt I shall be told: "In the immense majority of cases this is an illusion." But it is of the essence of hope to exlclude the consideration of cases; moreover, it can be shown that there exists an ascedning dialectic of hope, whereby hope rises to a plane which transcends the level of all possible empirical disproof - the plane of salvation as opposed to that of success in whatever form”
“the world we live in permits - and may even seem to counsel - absolute dispair, yet it is only such a world that can give rise to an unconquerable hope.”