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A biography of Olive Shreiner the first white South African
novelist to win international recognition, Olive Schreiner
(1855-1920) was also known for her political and social treatises,
which promoted feminism, socialism, pacifism, and free thought and
which criticized racism and British imperialism.
Edith Stein’s Life in a Jewish Family, 1891–1916 is a treasure
trove for the study of Stein’s youth and early adulthood, her
approach to writing autobiographically, and her intricate
relationship with historical influences of her time and place.
Through intellectual mining Stein’s narrative and conducting a
comprehensive historical analysis of Stein’s achievement as a
distinct type of autobiography, Joyce Avrech Berkman argues that a
key axis of Stein’s consciousness, values, philosophical ideas,
and life choices is a deep, tense, unresolved, philosophical, and
spiritual struggle to both uphold traditional societal and cultural
values and practices and also critiquing them to pioneer new
patterns of thought. Berkman further probes the sharply
controversial nature of Stein’s autobiography for her family
members and Stein scholars in the decades after her death. Edith
Stein’s Life in a Jewish Family, 1891–1916: A Companion serves
as an important guide to scholars in autobiographical studies,
history, philosophy, and theology, as well as to a broader
readership interested in Stein’s life for religious and cultural
reasons.
Controversy surrounding the beatification and canonization of Edith
Stein, a Catholic convert of Jewish heritage who was murdered at
Auschwitz, has eclipsed scholarly and public attention to Stein's
extraordinary development as a philosopher. She succeeded in
extending phenomenological inquiry into the nature of person,
community, and state; in analyzing the truth claims of empathic
knowledge; in probing the foundations of pedagogy; and in offering
a synthesis of medieval philosophy and phenomenology. Only the
second woman in German history to be awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy,
Stein ranks among the leading early-twentieth-century European
intellectuals. She also made lasting contributions, both
intellectual and practical, to women's education, freedom, and
equality in Germany. The sixteen essays in this collection, written
by scholars from the United States and Europe, critically examine
her legacy. This volume represents the first comprehensive
interdisciplinary analysis in English of Stein's life and
philosophical writings. The book is divided into three
sections-biographical explorations, Stein's feminist theory and
pedagogy, and her creative philosophical contributions. The essays
in this volume also situate Stein's life and thought in the complex
historical context of early-twentieth-century Germany.
Controversy surrounding the beatification and canonization of Edith
Stein, a Catholic convert of Jewish heritage who was murdered at
Auschwitz, has eclipsed scholarly and public attention to Stein's
extraordinary development as a philosopher. She succeeded in
extending phenomenological inquiry into the nature of person,
community, and state; in analyzing the truth claims of empathic
knowledge; in probing the foundations of pedagogy; and in offering
a synthesis of medieval philosophy and phenomenology. Only the
second woman in German history to be awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy,
Stein ranks among the leading early-twentieth-century European
intellectuals. She also made lasting contributions, both
intellectual and practical, to women's education, freedom, and
equality in Germany. The sixteen essays in this collection, written
by scholars from the United States and Europe, critically examine
her legacy. This volume represents the first comprehensive
interdisciplinary analysis in English of Stein's life and
philosophical writings. The book is divided into three
sections-biographical explorations, Stein's feminist theory and
pedagogy, and her creative philosophical contributions. The essays
in this volume also situate Stein's life and thought in the complex
historical context of early-twentieth-century Germany.
Written by leading scholars of African American and women's
history, the essays in this volume seek to reconceptualize the
political history of black women in the United States by placing
them "at the center of our thinking." The book explores how
slavery, racial discrimination, and gender shaped the goals that
African American women set for themselves, their families, and
their race and looks at the political tools at their disposal. By
identifying key turning points for black women, the essays create a
new chronology and a new paradigm for historical analysis. The
chronology begins in 1837 with the interracial meeting of
antislavery women in New York City and concludes with the civil
rights movement of the 1960s. The contributors focus on specific
examples of women pursuing a dual ambition: to gain full civil and
political rights and to improve the social conditions of African
Americans. Together, the essays challenge us to rethink common
generalizations that govern much of our historical thinking about
the experience of African American women.
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