Editing Gabriel Marcel (section)

==Influence==
[[File:Plaque Gabriel Marcel, 21 rue de Tournon, Paris 6.jpg|thumb|left|Plaque at the home where Marcel resided from 1933 until his death.]]
For many years, Marcel hosted a weekly philosophy discussion group through which he met and influenced important younger French philosophers like [[Jean Wahl]], [[Paul Ricœur]], [[Emmanuel Levinas]], and [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]. Marcel was puzzled and disappointed that his reputation was almost entirely based on his philosophical treatises and not on his plays, which he wrote in the hope of appealing to a wider lay audience. He also influenced [[phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenologist]] and [[Thomism|Thomistic]] philosopher Karol Wojtyla (later [[Pope John Paul II]]), who drew on Marcel's distinction between "being" and "having" in his critique of technological change.<ref>{{Citation |last=Jeffreys |first=Derek S. |title=The Legacy of John Paul II: An Evangelical Assessment |pages=37–56 |year=2007 |editor-last=Perry |editor-first=Tim |contribution='A Deep Amazement at Man's Worth and Dignity': Technology and the Person in ''Redemptor hominis'' |publisher=[[InterVarsity Press]]}}.</ref>

===Main works===
Marcel's major books are the ''Metaphysical Journal'' (1927), ''Being and Having'' (1933), ''Homo Viator'' (1945), and ''Man Against Mass Society'' (1955). He gave the [[Gifford Lectures]] at the [[University of Aberdeen]] between 1949 and 1950, which were published as ''[[The Mystery of Being]]'' (1951). He also gave the [[William James]] Lectures at [[Harvard]] in 1961–1962, which were subsequently published as ''The Existential Background of Human Dignity''.