The central theme of this book is the philosophical life of Edith Stein, the German Jewish intellectual and Husserl's right-hand woman, who was rejected by Germany's academic community, a Carmelite nun who perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. It offers a comprehensive overview of her phenomenological, literary, and mystical writings against the intellectual and socio-political backdrop of a Germany leading up to the triumph of Nazism and the Second World War. Revolving around this eminent philosophical and spiritual ...
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The central theme of this book is the philosophical life of Edith Stein, the German Jewish intellectual and Husserl's right-hand woman, who was rejected by Germany's academic community, a Carmelite nun who perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. It offers a comprehensive overview of her phenomenological, literary, and mystical writings against the intellectual and socio-political backdrop of a Germany leading up to the triumph of Nazism and the Second World War. Revolving around this eminent philosophical and spiritual figure, the book is also the story of the overlapping lives dedicated to the pursuit of philosophy of Mar???a Zambrano, Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, whose intellectual biographies are also detailed. Emerging from this two-part story is the way in which the interweaving philosophical lives of these four thinkers go to make up a particular configuration of thought in the face of Europe's socio-political and spiritual crisis, which all four viewed as a long dark night of the human soul. Two of them would come to a tragic end, while the others would continue down their own personal philosophical journeys, fine-tuning their critiques of the course taken by Western culture and spirituality, as well as testifying to the fragility of democracy. The individual ideas of each of these four thinkers thus interweave with the questions and answers of Edith Stein and the foundations underpinning her own philosophy: empathy, the structure of the human person, the sense of existence and a phenomenology of mysticism, which appear to point out the very limits not only of phenomenology, but also of thought itself.
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