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What is scientific about the natural and human sciences? Precisely this: the legibility of our worlds and the distinctive reading strategies that they provoke. That proposal comes from Edith Stein, who as Husserl's assistant from 1916 to 1918, labored in vain to bring his massive ""Ideen"" to publication. She argued that human bodily life itself affords direct access to the interplay of natural causality, cultural motivation, and personal initiative. This study explores the hermeneutical background of Stein's phenomenology and shows that she composed crucial passages of the ""Ideen"" manuscripts. Stein's own works on empathy and on psychology establish that natural science is a cultural achievement, resting on the ability to isolate caused data by recognizing and subtracting motivated data from raw data. This subtractive literacy is the most basic scientific competence, and it is fundamentally interpersonal.

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Author:   M. Sawicki
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1997 ed.
Volume:   144
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.420kg
ISBN:  

9780792347590

ISBN 10:   0792347595
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   30 September 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: The Genesis of Phenomenology.- The Nineteenth-Century German Hermeneutical Tradition.- The Munich Phenomenologists.- 2: Husserl’s Early Treatments of Intersubjectivity.- From the Logische Untersuchungen to Seefeld.- The 1910 Lectures on Basic Problems of Phenomenology.- The Logos Article and the First Book of the Ideen.- Nature and Intellect in Ideen II.- 3: Edith Stein’s Hermeneutic Theory.- Eidetics of Empathy.- Analysis of the Constitution of Individuals.- Analysis of the Empathy of Personal Types.- 4: Edith Stein’s Hermeneutic Practices.- Classifying Stem’s Works.- Anonymous Textual Production.- Philosophical and Theological Autographs.- Autobiography: Self and Type Under Construction.- 5: Interpretations of Edith Stein.- Interpretations of Stein by Period and by Topic.- Interpretations of Stein, According to Deployment of I’s.- 6: Science as Literacy.- Reading Life.- Writing Science.- Psychoanalytic Feminism as the Science of Science.- Materialist Feminism as the Science of Science.- Realist Feminism as the Science of Science.- Appendix 1: Dissertations and Theses on Edith Stein.- Appendix 2: Critique of Bordo’s Empathy Theory.- References.

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