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Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
1 154 kr
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Controversy surrounding the beatification and canonization of Edith Stein, a Catholic convert of Jewish heritage who was murdered at Auschwitz, has eclipsed scholarly and public attention to Stein's extraordinary development as a philosopher. She succeeded in extending phenomenological inquiry into the nature of person, community, and state; in analyzing the truth claims of empathic knowledge; in probing the foundations of pedagogy; and in offering a synthesis of medieval philosophy and phenomenology. Only the second woman in German history to be awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy, Stein ranks among the leading early-twentieth-century European intellectuals. She also made lasting contributions, both intellectual and practical, to women's education, freedom, and equality in Germany. The sixteen essays in this collection, written by scholars from the United States and Europe, critically examine her legacy. This volume represents the first comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis in English of Stein's life and philosophical writings. The book is divided into three sections—biographical explorations, Stein's feminist theory and pedagogy, and her creative philosophical contributions. The essays in this volume also situate Stein's life and thought in the complex historical context of early-twentieth-century Germany.
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
667 kr
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Controversy surrounding the beatification and canonization of Edith Stein, a Catholic convert of Jewish heritage who was murdered at Auschwitz, has eclipsed scholarly and public attention to Stein's extraordinary development as a philosopher. She succeeded in extending phenomenological inquiry into the nature of person, community, and state; in analyzing the truth claims of empathic knowledge; in probing the foundations of pedagogy; and in offering a synthesis of medieval philosophy and phenomenology. Only the second woman in German history to be awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy, Stein ranks among the leading early-twentieth-century European intellectuals. She also made lasting contributions, both intellectual and practical, to women's education, freedom, and equality in Germany. The sixteen essays in this collection, written by scholars from the United States and Europe, critically examine her legacy. This volume represents the first comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis in English of Stein's life and philosophical writings. The book is divided into three sections—biographical explorations, Stein's feminist theory and pedagogy, and her creative philosophical contributions. The essays in this volume also situate Stein's life and thought in the complex historical context of early-twentieth-century Germany.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
463 kr
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A study of Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the first white South African novelist to win international recognition. Schreiner was also known for her political and social treatises, which promoted feminism, socialism, pacifism and free thought, and which criticised racism and British imperialism.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 019 kr
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Edith Stein’s Life in a Jewish Family, 1891–1916 is a treasure trove for the study of Stein’s youth and early adulthood, her approach to writing autobiographically, and her intricate relationship with historical influences of her time and place. Through intellectual mining Stein’s narrative and conducting a comprehensive historical analysis of Stein’s achievement as a distinct type of autobiography, Joyce Avrech Berkman argues that a key axis of Stein’s consciousness, values, philosophical ideas, and life choices is a deep, tense, unresolved, philosophical, and spiritual struggle to both uphold traditional societal and cultural values and practices and also critiquing them to pioneer new patterns of thought. Berkman further probes the sharply controversial nature of Stein’s autobiography for her family members and Stein scholars in the decades after her death. Edith Stein’s Life in a Jewish Family, 1891–1916: A Companion serves as an important guide to scholars in autobiographical studies, history, philosophy, and theology, as well as to a broader readership interested in Stein’s life for religious and cultural reasons.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
1 386 kr
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A study of the refugee experience of Edith Stein’s family members who fled the Third Reich provides a lens through which to view existing theories of immigration and interpretations of the lives of German-Jewish immigrants.The Stein family’s experience of emigration and transition to a new country provokes questions raised by many German refugee scholars, and immigration scholars in general. These questions concern the impact of emigration on identity and transformation, perception of the country from which the refugees fled and where they settled, motivations to flee, anticipations of the future, and the agony of separation from family and friends. As this book reveals, Stein kin’s acculturation experience is both similar and different from that of other German immigrants. Joyce Berkman argues that the Stein kin experience challenges prevalent understanding of typical German refugee acculturation.This book draws heavily on first-person sources, including oral histories collected by the author from ten offspring of Stein’s siblings and her cousin Richard Courant. Other sources include: personal correspondence, short memoirs, and creative writing. Berkman examines a broad range of public documents and relevant scholarly literature and explores the benefits and limitations of first-person accounts for historical understanding.