Marcel’s idea of availability

 A major theme in Marcel is the notion that human beings live in a broken world (le monde cassé). He meant to convey a number of points by this claim, one that he returned to in different forms in his work.

First, the notion of being has been lost in the modern world, replaced by a nearobsession with the power of primary reflection; the modern world is under the sway of what Marcel called “the spirit of abstraction” (Man Against Mass Society).

Second, one manifestation of the dominance of primary reflection is the increasing bureaucratization of modern culture, which often identifies human beings with their functional roles in society and which therefore stultifies their inner lives and their creativity to such an extent that people’s selfworth is often directly tied to the social status of their jobs or their potential for owning material possessions.

That situation leads to alienation, a key theme in the existentialist movement in general.

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