Contemplating Edith Stein
Controversy surrounding the beatification and canonization of Edith Stein, a Catholic convert of Jewish heritage who was murdered at Auschwitz, has eclipsed scholarly and public attention to Stein's extraordinary development as a philosopher. Divided into three sections-biographical explorations, Stein's feminist theory and pedagogy, and her creative philosophical contributions-the sixteen essays in this volume represent the first comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis in English of Stein's...
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Controversy surrounding the beatification and canonization of Edith Stein, a Catholic convert of Jewish heritage who was murdered at Auschwitz, has eclipsed scholarly and public attention to Stein's extraordinary development as a philosopher. Divided into three sections-biographical explorations, Stein's feminist theory and pedagogy, and her creative philosophical contributions-the sixteen essays in this volume represent the first comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis in English of Stein's life and philosophical writings.
AcknowledgmentsixIntroduction1Part 1"I Am Not a 'Cleverly-Designed Book'; I Am a Human Being with My Contradictions": Who Is Edith Stein?1The Intellectual Passion of Edith Stein: A Biographical Profile152In Search of Edith Stein: Beyond Hagiography483Edith Stein (Poland, 1942): A Book Sealed with Seven Seals594Some Instances of Edith Stein's Humor and Compassion765Edith Stein's Passing Gestures: Intimate Histories, Empathic Portraits936The Complex Modernity of Edith Stein: New Gender Relations and Options for Women in Early-Twentieth-Century Germany1227Moments in Edith Stein's Years of Crisis, 1918-19221348"His Whole Life Consisted of a Search for Religious Truth": Edith Stein in Conversation with John Henry Newman1499The German-Jewish Symbiosis in Flux: Edith Stein's Complex National/Ethnic Identity170Part 2"Every So-Called 'Masculine' Occupation May Be Exercised by Many Women": Edith Stein's Feminism10Edith Stein: Essential Differences20111Edith Stein: A Reading of Her Feminist Thought21212Edith Stein's Philosophy of "Liberal" Education226Part 3"Without Personally Having Done Such Creative Philosophical Work a Person Cannot Possibly Imagine What It Demanded of Me": Stein the Philosopher13Assistant and/or Collaborator? Edith Stein's Relationship to Edmund Husserl's Ideen II24314Ontology, Metaphysics, and Life in Edith Stein27115What Makes You You? Individuality in Edith Stein28316Religious-Philosophical Reflections on the Relationship of Freedom and Commitment in Edith Stein and Simone Weil301Review of Literature in English on Edith Stein320Chronology343List of Contributors346Index349
\ From the Publisher“. . . An impressive collection of essays from an international network of highly respected Edith Stein scholars. . . . Teeming with insights, they cannot fail to stimulate anyone interested in Edith Stein.” —Mount Carmel Magazine, April-June, 2012\ \ \
