Brendan Sweetman, a native of Dublin, Ireland, is Professor of Philosophy at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, USA. His books include Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square (InterVarsity, 2006) and Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Continuum Books, 2007). He has co-authored or co-edited several other books, including Truth and Religious Belief (M.E. Sharpe, 1998), and Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 1992). Professor Sweetman has published more than fifty articles and reviews in a variety of collections and journals, including International Philosophical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, and Review of Metaphysics. He writes regularly in the areas of continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, political philosophy and ethics.

• Editorial Foreword by Kenneth A. BrysonForeword by Kathleen Rose HanleyAcknowledgementList of AbbreviationsIntroductionONE: Marcel’s Critique of CartesianismTWO: Human Being as a Being-in-a-SituationTHREE: The Objectivity of KnowledgeFOUR: Secondary Reflection, Ethics, and the TranscendentFIVE: Religious Experience, and the Affirmation of GodSIX: A Marcelian Critique of the Problem of SkepticismSEVEN: Marcel and Traditional Philosophical ProblemsEIGHT: Non-Conceptual Knowledge: Marcel and MaritainNINE: From an Epistemological Point of View: Buber and MarcelNotesBibliographyAbout the AuthorIndex