Il pensiero vivente. A 130 anni dalla nascita di Gabriel Marcel

The writing wants to celebrate the birth of Gabriel Marcel, talking about the comparison he makes in his writings with the theme of death. This comparison shows the ever-alive and resurgent character of Marcel’s thought: not because it excludes the death as the opposite of the thought itself, but because it recognizes their indissoluble interweaving. The binomial of life-death, like the ones between being-having and between mystery-problem, presents a dynamic of mutual implication, of reciprocal dependence, among terms which are different, but necessary to each other. Marcel describes the experience of their secret exchange and continuous transmutation, which calls into question the opposition of the Same-Other, making the exchange between the Self-Stranger its own. Death is like the mysterious reality of love or birth: they lie in the heart of experience and produce a deep transformation of existence and the continuous germination of thought. In these experiences Marcel lives the intertwining of time with eternity, in which takes shape his new Orphism, inspired by Rilke's poetics: the focus is the spirit of metamorphosis.