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Gabriel Marcel and F. H. Bradley

Enemies of Abstraction

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Gabriel Marcel and F. H. Bradley

Enemies of Abstraction

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The first sustained scholarly treatment of the influence of F. H. Bradley on the work of Gabriel Marcel.

This book argues that studying the philosophical work of Gabriel Marcel together with that of F. H. Bradley is mutually illuminating for our understanding of each philosopher. Marcel's more dramatic, existential, and phenomenological work illustrates the significance and relevance of what seems, at first glance, to be the dry metaphysics of Bradley. Bradley's philosophy helps explain the metaphysical relevance of Marcel's thought, as well as supply the needed theoretical elaboration of key concepts that Marcel left underdeveloped. The author takes the reader through a series of fundamental metaphysical issues, including truth, the nature of immediate experience, abstraction, identity, personhood, and God. The book concludes by suggesting that a synthesis of the insights of Marcel and Bradley yields a novel version of philosophical personalism-the view that humans are the most metaphysically fundamental and morally valuable beings that exist.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Truth and Exigence
2. Feeling and Participation
3. Enemies of Abstraction
4. Predication and Identification
5. Relations and Situations
6. Relations and Identity
7. Ultimate Doubts and Ultimate Hopes
Afterword
Bibliography
About the Author
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 27 Nov 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 280
ISBN 9781978771000
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Joseph Gamache

Joseph Gamache is Assistant Professor of Philosoph…

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