Morte di Dio, esistenza, trascendenza. Gabriel Marcel lettore di Nietzsche

[Autom. eng. transl.] Nietzsche's thought runs through Marcel's philosophy like a karst river. Now it flows under hidden ground, now it reappears on the surface with sporadic sobs. Marcel converses incessantly with Nietzsche, wishing "to pay homage to his greatness" and making him "one of the most eminent representatives of existential thought". His enthusiasm is catalyzed by the affirmation "God is dead", the common thread that binds together all the references to Nietzsche scattered throughout the Marcelian texts. Marcel wants to restore his original meaning to the statement "God is dead": a tragic-existential character that Nietzsche's followers seemed to have irreversibly clouded. A hermeneutic recovery that it accomplishes by targeting a dual target. On the one hand, it strips off Nietzsche's aphorisms of the heavy metaphysical dress that Heidegger made them wear. On the other hand, it removes from those sentences an aura of trivialization that decontextualises them and transforms them into advertising slogans - here Sartre takes aim -. Marcel therefore clears the ground from these two reductive readings of the announcement of the death of God. It is much more than a metaphysical quarrel and far beyond a newspaper headline. Behind this yearning there is the existence of an anguished man who lives in his own solitude the drama of the disappearance of God. A man who becomes aware of having killed God with his own hands, crossed by the thrill of those who from now on will have to live completely differently.