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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. She succeeded in extending phenomenological inquiry into the nature of person, community, and state; in analyzing the truth claims of empathic knowledge; in probing the foundations of pedagogy; and in offering a synthesis of medieval philosophy and phenomenology. Only the second woman in German history to be awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy, Stein ranks among the leading early-twentieth-century European intellectuals. She also made lasting contributions, both intellectual and practical, to women’s education, freedom, and equality in Germany. The sixteen essays in this collection, written by scholars from the United States and Europe, critically examine her legacy. This volume represents the first comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis in English of Stein’s life and philosophical writings. The book is divided into three sections—biographical explorations, Stein's feminist theory and pedagogy, and her creative philosophical contributions. The essays in this volume also situate Stein’s life and thought in the complex historical context of early-twentieth-century Germany.

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. . . 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

Editor Joyce Avrech Berkman has done readers a true service by pulling together so many valuable contributions to the scholarly research of the life and works of Edith Stein. . . . A valuable contribution to the fields of history, religion, philosophy, feminist thought, and more clearly reveals the power and versatility of Edith Stein's life and thought. -- Central European History 40 (2007) . . . 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 Editor Joyce Avrech Berkman has done readers a true service by pulling together so many valuable contributions to the scholarly research of the life and works of Edith Stein. . . . A valuable contribution to the fields of history, religion, philosophy, feminist thought, and more clearly reveals the power and versatility of Edith Stein's life and thought. Central European History 40 (2007) . . . 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 . . . A valuable contribution to the fields of history, religion, philosophy, feminist thought, and . . . reveals the power and versatility of Edith Stein's life and thought. --Central European History 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

. . . 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 Editor Joyce Avrech Berkman has done readers a true service by pulling together so many valuable contributions to the scholarly research of the life and works of Edith Stein. . . . A valuable contribution to the fields of history, religion, philosophy, feminist thought, and more clearly reveals the power and versatility of Edith Stein's life and thought. Central European History 40 (2007) . . . 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 . . . A valuable contribution to the fields of history, religion, philosophy, feminist thought, and . . . reveals the power and versatility of Edith Stein's life and thought. --Central European History 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 . . . 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 Editor Joyce Avrech Berkman has done readers a true service by pulling together so many valuable contributions to the scholarly research of the life and works of Edith Stein. . . . A valuable contribution to the fields of history, religion, philosophy, feminist thought, and more clearly reveals the power and versatility of Edith Stein's life and thought. --Central European History 40 (2007)

Editor Joyce Avrech Berkman has done readers a true service by pulling together so many valuable contributions to the scholarly research of the life and works of Edith Stein. . . . A valuable contribution to the fields of history, religion, philosophy, feminist thought, and more clearly reveals the power and versatility of Edith Stein's life and thought. -- Central European History 40 (2007) . . . 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 Editor Joyce Avrech Berkman has done readers a true service by pulling together so many valuable contributions to the scholarly research of the life and works of Edith Stein. . . . A valuable contribution to the fields of history, religion, philosophy, feminist thought, and more clearly reveals the power and versatility of Edith Stein's life and thought. Central European History 40 (2007) . . . 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

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Joyce Avrech Berkman is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts. Contributors: Joyce Avrech Berkman, Dana K. Greene, Patricia Hampl, John Sullivan, OCD, Scott Spector, Theresa Wobbe, Angelika von Renteln, Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz, Linda Lopez McAlister, Rachel Feldhay Brenner, Lisa M. Dolling, Antonio Calcagno, Angela Ales Bello, Sarah Borden, and Beate Beckmann-Zöller.

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