People are against the human. Marcel G.

The book of the founder of French existentialism Gabriel Marseille (1889-1973) is devoted to social philosophy in relation to the most urgent problems of European civilization, which were designated with all the tragic acuteness after the end of the Second World War.

The basis for the approach of these remaining topical plots of world philosophy are the principles of the Christian humanistic worldview, the French thinker, using the phenomenological method, analyzes such phenomena as “humiliation techniques”, “fanaticized consciousness”, propaganda. , a crisis of spiritual and moral values ​​in mass society, the decline of the spirit of disinterested service, technocratization and bureaucratization of society. Marseille is not limited to the psychological and sociological level of analysis and goes to the metaphysical basis of all these problems, addressing such concepts as, for example, the eschatology of history, its goals and meaning.

The application is translated by the article of the outstanding student of Marseille Field Riker, dedicated to this book and helping the reader more deeply understand the social thought of his teacher.