****Breaking News****
A commentary on Gabriel
Marcel's The Mystery of Being, by Thomas C. Anderson, Emeritus Professor
of Philosophy; Marquette University Press, 2006, Milwaukee, WI 53201-3141
www.marquette.edu/mupress
An excellent and the only commentary on Gabriel Marcel's 2 volume major
work prepared for the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen,
Scotland. A must read for Marcel students and scholars.
Ojara, Pius. Toward a Fuller
Human Identity: A Phenomenology of Family Life, Social Harmony, and the
Recovery of the Black Self. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am
Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2006. XIV, 477 pp.
European University Studies: Series 23, Theology. Vol. 825 ISBN 978-3-03910-957-9
/ US-ISBN 978-0-8204-8360-3 pb. sFr. 89.– / €* 61.40 / €**
63.10 / € 57.40 / £ 40.20 / US-$ 68.95
This book is based on the thought of Gabriel Marcel and offers an introduction
to the central categories of Marcel’s thought, focusing on his idea
of existential humanism. This study deals with the ambivalence of human
existence and the concepts of being, ego and bodiliness. The author draws
on examples from everyday life with a particular focus on African values
and the recovery of the black self. Contents: The Problematic in Human
Existence – The Beautiful and the Dialectical Human Structure –
Social Mediation of Being: A Case of some African Traditional Values –
Being and the Ego in the Dialectic of Re-Creating the World – Bodiliness
as Human Openness – Sexuality and Sexual Feelings – The Recovery
of the Black Self – The Ego, Being and the Trinity – God as
Fullness of Being for Christianity in the 21st Century.
The Author: Pius Ojara, SJ, Ph.D., is a Ugandan Jesuit studying theology
at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, California. He received
his Ph.D. from the University of Zimbabwe in 2003. His research focuses
on the Human Condition and Hope, drawing from the thought of Gabriel Marcel.
He was a faculty member at Arrupe College, the Jesuit School of Philosophy
and Humanities in Harare, Zimbabwe, from 1999-2003. He co-authored the
book, Marcel, Girard, Bakhtin: The Return of Conversion (2004). He is
working on a book tentatively titled: Tragic Humanity and Hope: On Understanding
Our Struggle to be Scientific, Sapiential, and Moral.
John Astin Directs and Performs in "The Lantern" at Johns Hopkins University
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Dr.
KR Hanley, Professor Emeritus Le Moyne College and Marcel Scholar,
with John Astin after a Nov. 13, 2005 Johns Hopkins University performance
of Gabriel Marcel’s one act play, The Lantern. The whole event was a spectacular success, and was given a command performance encore for students and faculty on Dec 4, 2005. John Astin directed and also played the role of the father, Antonin Chavière. The roles of the son Raymond Chavière, his recent fiancée Sabine Verdun, the father’s second wife Isabelle, and the maid were played by students in the John Hopkins M.A. drama program. The staged drama was received with rapt attention by an audience of alumni/ae from the Liberal Arts M.A. Program in Drama. With the final curtain, the play and its excellent performance were mightily applauded. Then a Question and Answer discussion period followed. Dr. K. R. Hanley was on stage with the Producer, Director, Actors and Dean of the Masters in Liberal Arts Program, to share her insights and comments in response to questions regarding Marcel, this play, and the developing clarification of existential questions in Marcel’s own life through dramatic imagination and reflection. The sponsors of this event chose a Marcel drama, not only for its theatrical merits, but also because his plays engage the developmental psychological tasks of the university age student; friendship, commitment, fidelity and creativity. Marcel is one of the rare dramatist/philosophers who address these issues. |
***Marcel Publications Announced***
Special Announcement
- American
Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 80, No. 3, Summer Issue 2006,
Special Gabriel Marcel Issue
- Awakenings (second
Printing)
by Gabriel Marcel
Translated by Peter S. Rogers, S.J.
Marquette University Press, ISBN 0-877462-653-3, 250 Pages, $25.00
- Gabriel Marcel: Music
and Philosophy
Translated with an Introduction by
Stephen Maddux and Robert E. Wood
Marquette Studies in Philosophy 42, ISBN 0-87462-665-X
- Ghostly Mysteries: Existential
Drama.
Two Plays: "A Mystery of Love" & "The Posthumous Joke " by Gabriel Marcel
Translated with an introduction and a reflection by K. R. Hanley
Marquette University Press, Studies in Philosophy #39,
ISBN 0-87462-662-5. Paper 179 pages. $20.00
**** Upcoming Meetings ****
Click here for a complete listing of upcoming meetings
****New Marcel articles available****
Brendan Sweetman, "Gabriel
Marcel: Ethics within a Christian Existentialism"
in John Drummond and Lester Embree (eds.), Phenomenological Approaches
to
Moral Philosophy (Kluwer, 2002), pp.269-288; and "Martin Buber's
Epistemology", International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol.XXXIX,
(March 1999), pp.5-18, which compares Buber's approach with Marcel and
Heidegger. Also, articles on Gabriel Marcel, Martin Buber and Jacques
Maritain in the Dictionary of Historical Theology (Eerdmans, 2000).
****
New Translations and Reprints available****
- The Awakening, An Autobiography by Gabriel Marcel, En Chemin vers Quel Eveil translated into English by Rev. Peter Rogers, S.J., introduction by Patrick L. Bourgeois both of Loyola University of New Orleans. Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, WI. (http://www.marquette.edu/mupress)
- Creative Fidelity by Gabriel Marcel reprinted by Fordham University Press with a new preface by Merold Westphal. ISBN 0-8232-2184-9
- The Mystery of Being.by
Gabriel Marcel: Vol. 1 Reflection and Mystery, 238 pp., $19.00 ISBN
1-890318-85-X; Vol. 2 Faith and Reality, 198 pp., $19.00, ISBN 1-890318-86-8.
Address orders to: St.Augustine's Press, Chicago Distribution Center,
1030 South Langley Avenue, Chicago, IL 60628. Telephone: within Illinois
773-568-1550, outside Illinois 800-621-8471.
- Marquette University has
published a special issue of its magazine, Renascence Essays on Values
in Literature, Critical Perspectives on Gabriel Marcel, Vol.LV, No.3,
Spring 2003. Contents: Marcel and Phenomenology, Can Literature Help
Philosophy? by Brendan Sweetman; Catholic Author, Musician, Philosopher:
Gabriel Marcel in Postmodern Dialogue by Patrick L. Bourgeois; Aspects
of Marcel's Essays by Teresa Reed; Gabriel Marcel's Catholic Dramaturgy
by Thomas A. Michaud; Gabriel Marcel: Playwright Philosopher by Katharine
Rose Hanley; "Dot the I" Concrete and Philosophical Approaches
to Commitment and Waiting in Gabriel Marcel's Work by Rosa Slegers.
Editor Ed Block, Jr., Helfaer Building 105, Marquette University, P.O.Box
1881, Milwaukee, WI, 53201-1881, USA
****CD's of Marcel's Plays available****
Two Audio Compact Discs
are now available.
"Dot the I" & "The Double Expertise" a 69 minute
compact disc , offering two one act plays - a poignant drama and a light
hearted comedy-, performed by a full cast of New York City Professional
Actors, 2001, ISBN 0-9715192-0-X.
"The Lantern" a 67 minute compact disc, presents a one act play
performed by a full cast of New York City Professional Actors, and recorded
before a live audience at Princeton University. This play brings to light
questions about the nature of interpersonal relations, and its surprise
ending invites the audience to reflect on this issue, not only in relation
to the lives of the characters but to their own lives as well, 2003, ISBN
0-9715192-3-4.
To order a copy of the Marcel Audio CD's, Click here
Click here to view a Poster announcing the release of the plays
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**** Publications Available****
Awakenings. [Gabriel Marcel's
Autobiography] Translated by Peter S. Rogers. Introduction by Patrick
Bourgeois
ISBN 0-87462-653-6. Marquette Studies in Philosophy 30. Paper. 262 pp.
$30
Gabriel Marcel, The Mystery
of Being.
Vol. 1 Reflection and
Mystery, 238 pp., $19.00 ISBN 1-890318-85-X
Vol. 2 Faith and Reality, 198 pp., $19.00, ISBN 1-890318-86-8
Address orders to:
St. Augustine's Press
Chicago Distribution Center
1030 South Langley Avenue
Chicago, IL 60628.
Telephone: PUBNET@ 202-5280
within Illinois 773-568-1550
outside Illinois 800-621-8471
