Stein and Husserl’s Phenomenology of the Social in Ideas II

Mette Lebech is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Maynooth University, Ireland, since 1998. She holds degrees from the universities of Copenhagen, Louvain-la-Neuve and Leuven and has published widely on human dignity and the philosophy of Edith Stein. Her publications include On the Problem of Human Dignity. A Hermeneutical and Phenomenological Investigation (Königshausen und Neumann, 2009); The Philosophy of Edith Stein. From Phenomenology to Metaphysics (Peter Lang, 2015); European Sources of Human Dignity. A Commented Anthology of Texts on Human Dignity (Peter Lang, 2019) and Value Phenomenology. Taking Account of Edith Stein’s Contributions (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). She is founding President of the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES) and Series Editor of Edith Stein Studies, Bloomsbury. She is a Fellow at the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at the University of Paderborn.

• 1 Introduction (Mette Lebech).- Part I: The Text of Ideas II and the Collaboration Between Stein and Husserl.- 2 The Collaboration of Husserl and Stein. Historical and Phenomenological Approaches (Anna Jani).- 3 Husserl and Stein on Empathy: Paving a Way Towards Integration (Francis Payo).- Part II: Intersubjectivity and Social Ontology.- 4 A Personally Embedded Qualitative Social Ontology: Issues from Stein and Husserl (Francesca De Vecchi).- 5 Us & Them: Edith Stein/T.W. Adorno and Socially Constituted Identity (Pól O’Hagan).- 6 Empathy in the Teaching/Learning Relation: Stein, Husserl, and Arendt (James McGuirk).- Part III: Discerning the Distinct Positions of Husserl and Stein.- 7 Stein’s Concepts of “Lifepower” and “Core” in the Description of the Living Body (Valentina Gaudiano).- 8 Edith Stein and Edmund Husserl on Phenomenology. The Balance of the Steinian Reception of Transcendental Phenomenology in her Introduction to Philosophy (Carlos Guillermo Viaña Rubio).- 9 Stein’s Contribution to the Phenomenological Foundation of the Social Sciences in Conversation with Schutz’s (Mette Lebech).- Part IV: Transcendental Intersubjectivity and Philosophical Anthropology.- 10 Stein’s Philosophical Anthropology as a Completion of Husserl’s Project for a Foundation of the Sciences. Ideen II – The “Master” and His Co-Genius (Claudia Mariéle Wulf).- 11 Rethinking Edmund Husserl’s and Edith Stein’s Philosophical Anthropology and Metaphysics (Angela Ales Bello).- 12 Concluding Observations (Mette Lebech).- Index.