TY - BOOK ID - 77894817 TI - The mystery of hope in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel (1888-1973) PY - 1992 SN - 0773418059 9780773418059 PB - Lewiston The Edwin Mellen Press DB - UniCat KW - Hope. KW - Marcel, Gabriel, 1889-1973. KW - Philosophy, French -- 20th century. KW - Hope KW - Philosophy, French KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Philosophy KW - French philosophy KW - Emotions KW - Marcel, Gabriel, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894817 AB - The present work is the only work in English which exclusively explores Marcel's understanding of hope. Examines hope as it relates to many categories, among them activity-act-life, anxiety-strangeness, availability-unavailability, being-having, captivity-trials, charity, communion-intersubjectivity, concrete philosophy, creativity, death, desire, despair, faith, prayer, sacrifice-suicide, and many more. Additionally the book offers a spiritual biography of Marcel based on his two essays in autobiography, a bibliography of secondary material, and appendices which index Marcel's major passages ER -