Edith Stein: The Philosophical Background

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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. 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 Community 14 What Kind of Story Is the Story So Far? 15 Three Conversions 16 Stein’s Conversion 17 Philosophy Deferred Index About the Author