Everybody knows Marjorie Grene. In part, this is because she is a
presence: her vividness, her energy, her acute intelligence, her
critical edge, her quick humor, her love of talking, her passion for
philosophy - all combine to make her inevitable. Marjorie Grene cannot
be missed or overlooked or undervalued. She is there - Dasein
personified. It is an honor to present a Festschrift to her. It honors
philosophy to honor her. Professor Grene has shaped American philosophy
in her distinc- tive way (or, we should say, in distinctive ways). She
was among the first to introduce Heidegger's thought ... critically ...
to the American and English philosophical community, first in her early
essay in the Journal of Philosophy (1938), and then in her book
Heidegger (1957). She has written as well on Jaspers and Marcel, as in
the Kenyon Review (1957). Grene's book Dreadful Freedom (1948) was one
of the most important and influential introductions to Existentialism,
and her works on Sartre have been among the most profound and insightful
studies of his philosophy from the earliest to the later writings: her
book Sartre (1973), and her papers 'L'Homme est une passion inutile:
Sartre and Heideg- ger' in the Kenyon Review (1947), 'Sartre's Theory of
the Emo- tions' in Yale French Studies (1948), 'Sartre: A Philosophical
Study' in Mind (1969), 'The Aesthetic Dialogue of Sartre and
Merleau-Ponty' in the initial volume of the Journal of the British
Society for Phenomenology (1970), 'On First Reading L'Idiot de