Overview

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 both disciplines.

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Among many other virtues of this study of Stein as thinker is MacIntyre's magnificent demonstration of how any philosopher must be situated in the context of where she studied, who her mentors were and the historical moment both inside and outside the academy. A bravo performance. --Kenneth L. Woodward Newsweek

a dense book, requiring slow and careful reading...it opens the eyes to the interest of Stein's early work and its context within the still too obscure world of Continental philosophy. --, Times Literary Supplement

'This book gives a convincing account of what was necessarily incomplete and one-sided in Husserl's phenomenology, and of how Stein parted company with Husserl...attentive reading.'Lucy Beckett, Church Times, 03/11/2006--, Church Times

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Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) was Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University, UK, and an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, USA. His publications include After Virtue (1981), Whose Justice? Whose Rationality? (1988) and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (1990).

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