Edith Stein A Philosophical Prologue Alasdair Macintyre by Alasdair Macintyre 9780826494016, 9780742549951, 074254995X, 0826494013 instant download after payment.

MacIntyre is one of the major British philosophers of the post-war years. He is a convert to Roman Catholicism. Edith Stein was an intellectual of considerable importance in the period between the two World Wars, also canonised as a Saint. A Jewish convert to Catholicism, she died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Stein's published essays focused largely on the structure of the person and a careful articulation of the essential nature of community and its basis in our nature as persons. MacIntyre looks at Stein as both a theologian and philosopher, and reveals many of the fundamental issues in both disciplines.

"This book is an attempt both to give some account of Edith Stein's beginnings as a philosopher and to understand her life-or at least the part of it treated in this book-as one kind of philosophical life possible in the twentieth century. The need for the first of these tasks arises from the general neglect of her philosophical work in the English-speaking world. There is no entry for Edith Stein in the Oxford &  Cambridge Dictionaries of Philosophy, the Oxford Companion, or the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In the Blackwell Companion to Continental Philosophy her name is not mentioned. So is her work as devoid of philosophical interest as this would suggest? One reason why her work has been undervalued may be that its significance can only be adequately understood viewed in its philosophical contexts, first as a contribution to phenomenological enquiry and later to Thomistic and other Neoscholastic enquiries, and secondly as a response to the condition of German philosophy in the first decades of the twentieth century. But to view it in this light it is necessary also to understand something of the course of German philosophy from the late nineteenth century onwards and the responses to its condition by Edith Stein's predecessors  and contemporaries. So in order to explain and situate her work I need to tell a somewhat longer tale."