Edith Stein and Max Scheler in Dialogue

Timothy A. Burns is Senior Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.Travis Lacy is Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College.Eric J. Mohr is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Liberal Arts program at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, and Secretary of the Max Scheler Society of North America.

Finally, a comprehensive anthology of essays comparing and contrasting Edith Stein and Max Scheler by a collection of world-class Stein and Scheler scholars! This is a most welcome volume on one of the most fascinating constellations of phenomenological stars in history, when Edmund Husserl and Scheler gathered about them in Göttingen a cluster of some of the brightest young rising philosophy students in Europe, including Stein and Dietrich von Hildebrand, whom Scheler (a Catholic of controverted standing and Jewish-Lutheran parentage) influenced to convert to Catholicism. Stein’s relationships to Husserl and Scheler and their sometime strained relationships and their respective intellectual and spiritual emphases are brilliantly developed in this volume.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Why Put Edith Stein and Max Scheler into Dialogue? Timothy A. Burns, Travis Lacy, and Eric J. MohrPart I: Human Personhood and Individuality1. Revisiting the Concept of the Person and Its Moral Responsibility in Max Scheler and in Edith Stein, Eugene Kelly2. Two Tenets of Personalism: Irreducibility and Individuality in Max Scheler and Edith Stein, Eric J. Mohr3. Scheler and Stein on the Notion of Unity in the Definition of the Person, Elise Dravigny4. Stein’s Reading of Scheler’s Idole der Selbsterkenntnis: Distinguishing Empathy and Psychic Contagion, Mette Lebech5. The Role of Spirit in Shaping Personhood: Insights from Scheler and Stein, Susan GottlöberPart II: Human Embodiment and Sociality6. Relational Ontologies: Ethics and Embodiment in the Thought of Max Scheler and Edith Stein, Michael Andrews7. Stein and Scheler on the Experience of Essences, Daniel Neuman8. Stein, Scheler, and the Contemporary Debate on Body Ownership, Martina Properzi9. On Some Gnostic Motifs in Max Scheler’s Philosophical Anthropology—Rethinking the Future of Personalism with Edith Stein, William Tullius10. The Concept of Bildung in Stein and Scheler: Its Relevance and Contribution to the Flourishing of the Human Person, Valentina Gaudiano11. Max Scheler and Edith Stein’s Phenomenology of the State, Olivier AgardPart III: Philosophy of Religion and Theological Indebtedness12. What is the ‘Philosophical Worldview’ According to Scheler? From Stein's Comments on Scheler, Maximillian Lu13. Spirit versus Matter or Life?: Edith Stein’s Finite and Eternal Being in Dialogue with Max Scheler’s The Human Place in the Cosmos, Sarah Borden Sharkey14. A Phenomenology of Spiritual Life? Tareq Ayoub15. Les Raisons du Coeur: The Intelligence of Love in Edith Stein and Max Scheler, Travis Lacy16. ‘That They Maybe All Be One’: Edith Stein, Max Scheler, and a Phenomenology of the Eucharist, Timothy A. BurnsPart IV: Translation17. The Meaning of Phenomenology as Worldview (Die weltanschauliche Bedeutung der Phänomenologie), Edith Stein, translated by Walter Redmond