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Thine Own Self - Individuality in Edith Stein's Later Writings (Paperback)
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Thine Own Self - Individuality in Edith Stein's Later Writings (Paperback)
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Edith Stein was one of the important early phenomenologists. A
German-Jewish philosopher, Discalced Carmelite nun, martyr, and
saint who died in Auschwitz, Stein participated in the early 20th
century revival of scholasticism and was much admired by John Paul
II. ""Thine Own Self"" focuses on Stein's later writings and in
particular her magnum opus, ""Finite and Eternal Being"". Although
completed in 1936, Stein's book was not published at the time
because of the new laws against non-Aryan publications, and the
work sat completed but unread until after World War II. The recent
availability of this book in English makes a substantive scholarly
analysis of this major text particularly timely. ""Thine Own Self""
investigates Stein's account of human individuality and her mature
philosophical positions on being and essence. Sarah Borden Sharkey
shows how Stein's account of individual form adapts the
Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition in order to account for evolution
and more contemporary insights in personality and individual
distinctiveness. Borden Sharkey explains how Stein's theory of
individuality and individual forms is tied to her understanding of
essence and being, and she compares Stein's distinctive
metaphysical positions to those of Thomas Aquinas, John Duns
Scotus, and Edmund Husserl. In addition to expositing Stein's
metaphysical positions, Borden Sharkey argues that, although
Stein's account of individual forms is both more contemporary and
more adequate than John Duns Scotus' haecceitas, it is nonetheless
problematic. The book concludes by defending a more
Aristotelian-Thomistic understanding of form - albeit one that must
be re articulated in light of contemporary and Steinian critiques.
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