Edith Stein : a philosophical prologue / / Alasdair MacIntyre

• Autore: MacIntyre Alasdair C.
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2007; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy, Modern - 20th century
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Edith Stein
• ISBN: 0-7425-4995-X; 1-283-20677-3; 9786613206770; 1-4411-6659-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828519703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II