Edith Stein : The Philosophical Background by Alasdair MacIntyre
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MacIntyre is one of the major British philosophers of the post-war years, and a convert to Roman Catholicism. Edith Stein was an intellectual of considerable importance in the period between the two World Wars. The fact that she was also canonised as a Saint is truly remarkable: a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism, she died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
In this major study of Stein’s development as a theologian and philosopher, MacIntyre reveals many of the fundamental issues in both disciplines and in their cross-fertilisation. Stein was a pupil of the phenomenological philosopher Edmund Husserl. She then sought in her own writing to interpret phenomenology in a Thomistic way.
In this, she was as original and innovative as were the Catholic philosophers – such as Peter Geach and Elizabeth Anscombe – who made similar interpretations of the work of Wittgenstein in this country.
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