Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-179) and index.

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- MARCEL’S CRITIQUE OF CARTESIANISM -- HUMAN BEING AS A BEING-IN-A-SITUATION -- THE OBJECTIVITY OF KNOWLEDGE -- SECONDARY REFLECTION, ETHICS AND THE TRANSCENDENT -- RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, AND THE AFFIRMATION OF GOD -- A MARCELIAN CRITIQUE OF THE PROBLEM OF SKEPTICISM -- MARCEL AND TRADITIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS -- NON-CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE: MARCEL AND MARITAIN -- FROM AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW: BUBER AND MARCEL -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VIBS.

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This book illustrates the profound implications of Gabriel Marcel’s unique existentialist approach to epistemology not only for traditional themes in his work concerning ethics and the transcendent, but also for epistemological issues, concerning the objectivity of knowledge, the problem of skepticism, and the nature of non-conceptual knowledge, among others. There are also chapters of dialogue with philosophers, Jacques Maritain and Martin Buber. In focusing on these themes, the book makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on Marcel.