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There are few topics more central to philosophical discussions than
the meaning of being, and few thinkers offering a more compelling
and original vision of that meaning than Edith Stein (1891-1942).
Stein's magnum opus, drawing from her decades working with the
early phenomenologists and intense years as a student and
translator of medieval texts, lays out a grand vision, bringing
together phenomenological and Scholastic insights into an
integrated whole. The sheer scope of Stein's project in Finite and
Eternal Being is daunting, and the text can be challenging to
navigate. In this book, Sarah Borden Sharkey provides a guide to
Stein's great final philosophical work and intellectual vision. The
opening essays give an overview of Stein's method and argument and
place Finite and Eternal Being both within its historical context
and in relation to contemporary discussions. The author also
provides clear, detailed summaries of each section of Stein's opus,
drawing from the latest scholarship on Stein's manuscript. Edith
Stein's Finite and Eternal Being: A Companion offers a unique
guide, opening up Stein's grand cathedral-like vision of the
meaning of being as the unfolding of meaning.
This book articulates the theoretical outlines of a feminism
developed from Aristotle's metaphysics, making a new contribution
to feminist theory. Readers will discover why Aristotle was not a
feminist and how he might have become one, through an investigation
of Aristotle and Aristotelian tradition. The author shows how
Aristotle's metaphysics can be used to articulate a particularly
subtle and theoretically powerful understanding of gender that may
offer a highly useful tool for distinctively feminist arguments.
This work builds on Martha Nussbaum's 'capabilities approach' in a
more explicitly and thoroughly hylomorphist way. The author shows
how Aristotle's hylomorphic model, developed to run between the
extremes of Platonic dualism and Democritean atomism, can similarly
be used today to articulate a view of gender that takes bodily
differences seriously without reducing gender to biological
determinations. Although written for theorists, this scholarly yet
accessible book can be used to address more practical issues and
the final chapter explores women in universities as one example.
This book will appeal to both feminists with limited familiarity
with Aristotle's philosophy, and scholars of Aristotle with limited
familiarity with feminism.
This book articulates the theoretical outlines of a feminism
developed from Aristotle's metaphysics, making a new contribution
to feminist theory. Readers will discover why Aristotle was not a
feminist and how he might have become one, through an investigation
of Aristotle and Aristotelian tradition. The author shows how
Aristotle's metaphysics can be used to articulate a particularly
subtle and theoretically powerful understanding of gender that may
offer a highly useful tool for distinctively feminist arguments.
This work builds on Martha Nussbaum's 'capabilities approach' in a
more explicitly and thoroughly hylomorphist way. The author shows
how Aristotle's hylomorphic model, developed to run between the
extremes of Platonic dualism and Democritean atomism, can similarly
be used today to articulate a view of gender that takes bodily
differences seriously without reducing gender to biological
determinations. Although written for theorists, this scholarly yet
accessible book can be used to address more practical issues and
the final chapter explores women in universities as one example.
This book will appeal to both feminists with limited familiarity
with Aristotle's philosophy, and scholars of Aristotle with limited
familiarity with feminism.
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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