Anxiety and Fidelity: Gabriel Marcel on Existential Fear

Kinesis 40 (2):75-83 (2015)
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In this paper, I attempt to reorient the "problem of fear," into the question of the "mystery of anxiety": in doing so, I focus on Gabriel Marcel's text "Being and Having: An Existential Diary," where he wrestles with the questions of fear and anxiety. Once we give up on the "problem" of fear and orient ourselves along lines of Being (anxiety) rather than Having (fear), we can approach the question meaningfully: from this perspective, we begin to see the importance of both Hope and Fidelity as not "solutions" to the "problem of fear," but rather as ways of Being that transcend the anxiety of a fundamentally finite and mortal creature. This paper is meant only to sketch an outline of the way in which we might transcend anxiety through Fidelity: there is more work required to fully flesh out this movement of transcendence.

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