Citation

Mazzone S. Archivio di Storia della Cultura 2018; 31: 159-177.

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(Copyright © 2018)

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Abstract

The paper aims at identifying a historical-philosophical path of interpretation of Gabriel Marcel's theory of corporeality and incarnation. After sketching the author's historical and biographical context, the paper tries to retrace the same path constructed by Marcel from the early writings of the 1920s onwards. The biographical traces in Marcel's themes are stressed; furthermore, different themes are examined, from the criticism of Cartesian dualism to the definition of "body" and "incarnation" by highlighting the role of concepts such as "fidelity", "hope", "love". These are regarded as aptitudes of the incarnate existence which are meant to gain the supremacy of being over having. Hence it comes that the relationship with "the other" is, in its essence, a coexistence based on the same subjective experience. In the light of these arguments, the paper remarks the importance of death and the unavailability of body in relation to suicide, in a perspective which appears to be rooted in the epistemological distinction between problem and mystery. © 2018, Liguori Editore. All rights reserved.

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