Edita Stein Libri

Gli anni dell'infanzia e della giovinezza di Edith Stein, raccontati in un'autobiografia vibrante di profonda sincerità, che svela il suo percorso di crescita personale e professionale ed introduce nella vita quotidiana di una famiglia ebrea a cavallo tra due secoli. Uno spirito schietto, a volte spigoloso, sempre acutamente autocritico; un ricordo affettuoso della madre, dei fratelli, degli amici e dei compagni di studi, dei superiori e dei colleghi, di tutti coloro che hanno accompagnato per un tratto più o meno lungo il suo cammino giovanile; una profonda coscienza delle proprie radici ebraiche: questi sono gli aspetti peculiari del "romanzo di una vita" intimo e sobrio. Un autoritratto concepito, com'è nella natura di Edith Stein, non per desiderio di autocelebrazione, ma come contributo personale per assolvere il "dovere di rendere testimonianza" ad un patrimonio di idee e di esperienze che racchiudono l'eredità di un intero popolo.

Dissertazione con la quale Edith Stein conseguì il dottorato nel 1916 avendo come correlatore Edmund Husserl. Posto ai confini tra filosofia e psicologia, questo studio mostra come si possa esperire la coscienza altrui, per giungere alla comprensione delle persone con cui entriamo in rapporto.

Edith Stein and Roman Ingarden, both students of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, corresponded extensively between 1917 and 1938. These 162 letters, most published here for the first time, reveal a friendship that spanned the adult lives of these two important 20th-century thinkers. Through Stein's letters, the reader can follow her through her student days, her conversion from Judaism to Catholicism, her professional life, and her decision to become a Carmelite nun in the Carmel of Cologne, where she took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. The letters end in 1938, when the Nazi threat escalating throughout Eastern Europe made correspondence difficult, especially across national borders. Four years later Edith Stein was arrested in the Netherlands by the Nazi SS, transported to Auschwitz, and was killed in the gas chambers. Roman Ingarden survived World War II, continued his academic work in Poland, and died in 1970. Although Ingarden's letters to her have not been found, Stein's to him also help us understand the life of this Polish phenomenologist and aesthetician, his life in Poland, his intellectual development, his own writings and academic career, and the editorial assistance Stein provided for all of the works he published in German. Translated from the newest critical German edition by Dr. Hugh Candler Hunt, this premiere English edition of her correspondence volume 12 of ICS Publications Collected Works of Edith Stein gives us a fascinating and intimate window into Edith Stein's rich life and personality, revealing her warmth and humor, deep capacity for friendship, and remarkable intellectual and spiritual depth. Included are 13 photos, bibliography and index.--Publisher

Edith Stein: Life in Jewish Family - The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Vol. One By Edith Stein, translated by Josephine Koeppel, OCD. Edith Stein's autobiography, with map and 11 pages of photos. This initial volume of the Collected Works offers, for the first time in English, Edith Stein's unabridged autobiography depicting herself as a child and a young adult. Her text breaks abruptly because the Gestapo arrested and deported her to Auschwitz in 1942. Edith Stein is one of the most significant German women of our century. At the age of twenty-five she became the first assistant to the founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl. She was much in demand as a writer-lecturer after her conversion from atheism to Catholicism. Later, as a Carmelite nun, she maintained her intellectual pursuits, until she died along with so many other Jewish people in the Holocaust. By making this story available in English, the Institute of Carmelite Studies provides an eye-witness account of persons and activities on the scene at the time when psychology and philosophy became separate disciplines. A preface, foreword, and afterword to Edith's text brings out many background details of the rich story she has left us. "A splendid translation, filled with a deep understanding of Edith Stein." - Cistercian Studies