The breadth of shared intellectual debts and interests in the work of Edith Stein and Max Scheler demand that they be placed in conversation.

This volume brings together philosophers and theologians to explore the convergences and divergences in Stein and Scheler's respective work. Both thinkers were early practitioners of the phenomenological method, drew from and reflected on theological resources in their philosophical explorations, and maintained a lifelong interest in the human person. It examines key themes such as the human person, spirit (Geist), education (Bildung), and social ontology, demonstrating their historical importance and contemporary relevance. The authors argue that reading these philosophers together is essential for understanding their historical significance and for illuminating contemporary concerns both within and beyond academia. The volume also features the first English translation of Edith Stein's seminal essay, "The Meaning of Phenomenology as Worldview."

This volume brings together philosophers and theologians to explore connections between Stein and Scheler's work, arguing that reading these philosophers together is essential for understanding their historical significance and contemporary impact.

About the Author

Timothy A. Burns is Senior Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.
Travis Lacy is Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College.
Eric J. Mohr is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Liberal Arts program at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, and Secretary of the Max Scheler Society of North America.

Reviews
Finally, a comprehensive anthology of essays comparing and contrasting Edith Stein and Max Scheler by a collection of world-class Stein and Scheler scholars! This is a most welcome volume on one of the most fascinating constellations of phenomenological stars in history, when Edmund Husserl and Scheler gathered about them in Goettingen a cluster of some of the brightest young rising philosophy students in Europe, including Stein and Dietrich von Hildebrand, whom Scheler (a Catholic of controverted standing and Jewish-Lutheran parentage) influenced to convert to Catholicism. Stein's relationships to Husserl and Scheler and their sometime strained relationships and their respective intellectual and spiritual emphases are brilliantly developed in this volume. -- Philip Blosser, Professor of Philosophy * Sacred Heart Major Seminary *



Book Information
ISBN 9781666965452
Author Eric Mohr
Format Hardback
Page Count 266
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc