Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein: Philosophical Encounters and Divides

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Antonio Calcagno, Ronny Miron

   Pages 1-12

3. Edith Stein and Hedwig Conrad-Martius: A Metaphysical Dialogue on the Origin of the Human Soul

   • Simona Bertolini

   Pages 13-28

4. The Influence of Hedwig Conrad-Martius’s Early Conception of the Soul on Edith Stein’s “Individual and Community”

   • Christof Betschart

   Pages 29-40

5. Contribution towards Reconstructing a Neglected “Schism” in Early Phenomenology: The Cases of Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein

   • Daniele De Santis

   Pages 41-54

6. Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Edith Stein, and the Question of Idealism and Realism

   • Anna Maria Pezzella

   Pages 55-67

7. Philosophy of Nature and Metaphysics: The Relevance of Hedwig Conrad-Martius’s Phenomenological Analyses

   • Angela Ales Bello

   Pages 69-84

8. Eternal Being and Creaturely Existence: Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein on Divine-Human Ontology

   • Christina M. Gschwandtner

   Pages 85-103

9. Stein’s Critique of Heidegger on Temporality, Eternity, and Transcendence—With Special Attention to Conrad-Martius’s Contribution

   • George Heffernan

   Pages 105-132

10. Side by Side as if on a Narrow Ridge: Edith Stein and Hedwig Conrad-Martius Living Out Christianity and Facing Atheistic Philosophy

    • Joachim Feldes

    Pages 133-147

11. Back Matter

    Pages 149-157

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This book focuses on the unique philosophical relationship between Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein. The two phenomenologists discussed and debated insights and ideas about the nature of the soul, phenomenology, personhood and individuality, animal life, nature, being, and God. This book brings together for the first time leading international scholars of phenomenology to explore the philosophical exchange between both Conrad-Martius and Stein. This is an important book for understanding the development of the phenomenological movement and key phenomenological ideas and methods. It provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the key issues that helped frame both phenomenologists’ philosophical trajectories. Additionally, the ideas of Conrad-Martius and Stein are mined to address contemporary questions surrounding such topics as personal identity, animal versus human personhood, contemporary atheism, and the relationship between religion and science. The book will have great appeal to phenomenologists, philosophers, and historians of philosophy.

 

• Hedwig Conrqad-Martius
• Edith Stein
• Sould and Psyche
• God, Religion and Faith
• Nature and Philosophies of Nature
• I and Identity
• Ontology and Phenomenology
• Philosophy of Psychology

• Department of Philosophy, King's University College, London, Canada

  Antonio Calcagno

• Interdisciplinary Unit, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

  Ronny Miron

Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Giordano Bruno and the Logic of Coincidence: Unity and Multiplicity in the Philosophical Thought of Giordano Bruno (1998), The Philosophy of Edith Stein (2007), Badiou and Derrida: Politics, Events and Their Time (2007), Lived Experience from the Inside Out: Social and Political Philosophy in Edith Stein (2014), and On Political Impasse: Power, Resistance, and New Forms of Selfhood (2022). He has edited or co-edited fifteen books, including Thinking About Love: Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy (Penn State, 2015), Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy (SUNY, 2015) and Roberto Esposito: Biopolitics and Philosophy (SUNY, 2018). He is a Member of the College, Royal Society of Canada.

 

Ronny Miron is a Professor of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Her research is focused on post-Kantian Idealism, Existentialism, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics, as well as current Jewish thought. She employs an interdisciplinary perspective combining the aforementioned traditions. She is the author of:  Karl Jaspers: From Selfhood to Being (2012), The Desire for Metaphysics: Selected Papers on Karl Jaspers (2014), The Angel of Jewish History: The Image of the Jewish Past in the Twentieth Century (2014). Husserl and Other Phenomenologists (2018, edited book) and Hedwig Conrad-Martius: The Phenomenological Gateway to Reality, Springer (2021).