Edith Stein

Edith Stein: a philosophical prologue

by MacIntyre, Alasdair C.

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MacIntyre is one of the major British philosophers of the post-war years. He is a convert to Roman Catholicism. Edith Stein was an intellectual of considerable importance in the period between the two World Wars, also canonised as a Saint. A Jewish convert to Catholicism, she died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Stein's published essays focused largely on the structure of the person and a careful articulation of the essential nature of community and its basis in our nature as persons. MacInty…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Edith Stein : a philosophical prologue / Alasdair MacIntyre.

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MacIntyre is one of the major British philosophers of the post-war years. He is a convert to Roman Catholicism. Edith Stein was an intellectual of considerable importance in the period between the two World Wars, also canonised as a Saint. A Jewish convert to Catholicism, she died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Stein's published essays focused largely on the structure of the person and a careful articulation of the essential nature of community and its basis in our nature as persons. MacIntyre looks at Stein as both a theologian and philosopher, and reveals many of the fundamental issues in both disciplines.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Continuum
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 194 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780826494016, 0826494013, 0826491022, 9780826491022, 9781441166593, 1441166599, 1283206773, 9781283206778, 9786613206770, 6613206776
  • oclc:ocn746790934
  • LC Classification:BX4705.S814
  • Dewey Decimal:193

Table of Contents

To the Reader; Acknowledgments; 1 Why Take an Interest in Edith Stein as a Philosopher?; 2 Stein and Reinach; 3 Logical Investigations: A New Starting-Point in Philosophy; 4 The Background History: From Hume to the Neo-Kantians; 5 Logical Investigations: What Do We Learn from Experience?; 6 Reinach's Philosophical Work; 7 1913-1915: Stein's Education; 8 1915-1916: From Nursing to a Doctorate; 9 Stein on Our Knowledge of Other Minds; 10 1916-1922: The Complexity of Stein's History; 11 The Political Dimension; 12 1916-1919: Stein and Husserl

13 Stein's Conception of Individual and Community14 What Kind of Story Is the Story So Far?; 15 Three Conversions; 16 Stein's Conversion; 17 Philosophy Deferred; Index; About the Author

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Subjects

filosofie Geschichte 1913-1927 Philosophie -- 20e siècle Philosophy PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys Philosophy -20th century Stein, Edith,, Saint

Writers

MacIntyre, Alasdair C.

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