Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein: Philosophical Encounters and Divides (Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences)

Book info: Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein: Philosophical Encounters and Divides (Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences) (Paperback, 172 pages) – Springer, 2023. Language: English.

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 greatappeal to phenomenologists, philosophers, and historians of philosophy.

Editorial Reviews From the Back Cover 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 greatappeal to phenomenologists, philosophers, and historians of philosophy.

About the Author

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).