Overview
- Gives a critical appraisal of Stein and HCM's philosophical exchange
- Provides the first comprehensive presentation of the main ideas of their philosophical exchange
- Covers collection of leading scholars in early phenomenology to work on the phenomenologists' unique positions
Part of the book series: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences (WHPS, volume 16)
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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 greatappeal to phenomenologists, philosophers, and historians of philosophy.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein: Philosophical Encounters and Divides
Editors: Antonio Calcagno, Ronny Miron
Series Title: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14759-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14758-6Published: 04 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14761-6Published: 05 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14759-3Published: 03 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-8760
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8779
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 157
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Nature, Ontology