Edith Stein: The Philosophical Background

Edith Stein: The Philosophical Background

by Alasdair Mac Intyre (Author)

Synopsis

MacIntyre is one of the major British philosophers of the post-war years, and a convert to Roman Catholicism. Edith Stein was an intellectual of considerable importance in the period between the two World Wars. The fact that she was also canonised as a Saint is truly remarkable: a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism, she died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. In this major study of Stein's development as a theologian and philosopher, MacIntyre reveals many of the fundamental issues in both disciplines and in their cross-fertilisation. Stein was a pupil of the phenomenological philosopher Edmund Husserl. She then sought in her own writing to interpret phenomenology in a Thomistic way. In this, she was as original and innovative as were the Catholic philosophers - such as Peter Geach and Elizabeth Anscombe - who made similar interpretations of the work of Wittgenstein in this country.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 08 May 2007

ISBN 10: 0826494013
ISBN 13: 9780826494016

Media Reviews
In this excellent new introduction, Professor Alasdair MacIntyre, one of our foremost philosophers, presents us with Edith the philosopher from her earliest years, through her work with Husserl, finishing with her conversion to Catholicism in 1922. I found that the book seemed to work on three levels at once...This will be required reading.
-Peter Tyler, Mount Carmel, July-Sept. 2010
'In this excellent new introduction, Professor Alasdair Macintyre, one of our foremost philosphers presents us with Edith the philosopher...This fine account, drawing on previously established biographies...is as good a summary of the events of this part of her life as you will find in English. ...Having just taught an undergraduate course on this subject I feel moved to include Edith in next year's course along with Wittenstein and Strawson...ultiamtely very enriching for the reader.

...[F]or anyone with a serious interest in Edith as philospher - or those with philosophical interests...this will be required reading.' --Sanford Lakoff Pastoral Review
Author Bio
Alasdair MacIntyre is Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several bestselling books, including After Virtue, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, and A Short History of Ethics (a Routledge Classic).