Edith Stein

The Philosophical Background
Neuauflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9401-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

MacIntyre's examination of Stein as both a theologian and philosopher.

MacIntyre is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, both in terms of book sales and academic status. His After Virtue has prompted many to take a new approach to ethics and has sold over 85,000 copies.
- MacIntyre gives a detailed account of the philosophical context in which Stein worked, giving a survey of early 20th German philosophy, including the work of major figures such as Husserl, Heidegger and Lukacs.

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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, General

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacIntyre, Alasdair

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Alasdair MacIntyre is Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several bestselling books, including After Virtue, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, and A Short History of Ethics (a Routledge Classic).