{"product_id":"problematic-man","title":"Problematic Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Gabriel Marcel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eModernity has expanded\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eupon the Psalmist’s admonition to put one’s trust not in princes. Power can assume, to borrow Gabriel Marcel’s phrase, an “infinity of masks”; yet these masks only obscure the vacuity of ideology and its inability to save man from himself. \u003ci\u003eProblematic Man\u003c\/i\u003e pursues both diagnosis and prognosis of the existential condition of modern man. Between the “death of God” which Nietzsche proclaimed and the atmosphere of anxiety, insecurity, and meaninglessness in which man now draws his daily breath stands an indisputable connection. To parse this connection, and thus bring forth something approaching a solution to “problematic man,” Marcel brings into conversation an array of philosophers and philosophies, ranging from Aristotle to Augustine, from Pascal and Kierkegaard to Heidegger and Sartre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMan has lost his divine reference… Might not the death of God, in the \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eexact sense that Nietzsche has given to these words, be at the origin of \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe fact that man has become for himself a question without an answer?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cspan class=\"s1\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003e(\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGabriel Marcel)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eElegant in style and subtle in judgment, Marcel contrasts modernity’s inheritance of unprecedented scientific and technological progress with its spoils of unhappiness and unease and concludes emphatically that a re-integration of the Gospel is the fundamental solution to \u003ci\u003eProblematic Man\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* * *\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriel Marcel\u003c\/b\u003e (1889–1973) was a French philosopher and dramatist, a convert to Roman Catholicism, and the most distinguished proponent of Christian existentialism of the twentieth century. His works in English include \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Existence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeing and Having\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Being\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951337\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100035244399,"sku":"978-1685951337","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--724.jpg?v=1781124752","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/problematic-man","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}