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Description

1. x, 312 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "What is 'scientific' about the natural and human sciences? Precisely this: the legibility of our worlds and the distinctive reading strategies that they provoke. That proposal comes from Edith Stein, who as Husserl's assistant [between] 1916-1918 labored in vain to bring his massive 'Ideen' to publication. She argued that human bodily life itself affords direct access to the interplay of natural causality, cultural motivation, and personal initiative. This study explores the hermeneutical background of Stein's phenomenology and shows that she composed crucial passages of the 'Ideen' manuscripts. Stein's own works on empathy and on psychology establish that natural science is a cultural achievement, resting on the ability to isolate caused data by recognizing and subtracting motivated data from raw data. This subtractive literacy is the most basic scientific competence, and it is fundamentally interpersonal. The reality of the illegible causal remainder overcomes the critiques of science recently offered by psychoanalytic and standpoint feminisms."--

Series statement

1. Phaenomenologica ; 144

Uniform title

1. Phaenomenologica ; 144.

Subject

1. Stein, Edith, Saint, 1891-1942
2. Stein, Edith, Saint, 1891-1942
3. Stein, Edith Heilige 1891-1942
4. Stein, Edith, santa, 1891-1942
5. Edith Stein (sainte ; 1891-1942) > Contribution à l'herméneutique
6. Edith Stein (sainte ; 1891-1942) > Contribution à la phénoménologie
7. Stein, Edith
8. Phenomenology
9. Science > Philosophy
10. phenomenology
11. Phenomenology
12. Science > Philosophy
13. Hermeneutik
14. Phänomenologie
15. Fenomenologie
16. Fenomenologia
17. Ciència > Filosofia
18. Phénoménologie
19. Philosophie des sciences

Contents

1. Preface -- The genesis of phenomenology. The nineteenth-century German hermeneutical tradition ; The Munich phenomenologists -- Husserl's early treatments of intersubjectivity. From the Logische Untersuchungen to Seefeld ; The 1910 lectures on basic problems of phenomenology ; The Logos article and the first book of the Ideen ; Nature and intellect in Ideen II -- Edith Stein's hermeneutic theory. Eidetics of empathy ; Analysis of the constitution of individuals ; Analysis of the empathy of personal types -- Edith Stein's hermeneutic practices. Classifying Stein's works ; Anonymous textual production ; Philosophical and theological autographs ; Autobiography : self and type under construction -- Interpretations of Edith Stein. Interpretations of Stein by period and by topic ; Interpretations of Stein, according to deployment of I's -- Science as literacy. Reading life ; Writing science ; Psychoanalytic feminism as the science of science ; Materialist feminism as the science of science ; Realist feminism as the science of science -- Appendix 1: Dissertations and theses on Edith Stein -- Appendix 2: Critique of Bordo's empathy theory.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Kentucky.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-307) and index.