Ripartire da Edith Stein: La scoperta di alcuni
manoscritti inediti. Ed. P. Manganaro and F. Nodari. Quaderni
per l'Università 4. Brescia: Morcelliana, 2014
An excellent collection of articles on Stein. Here is a translation of the table of contents.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Preface by Laura Boella 7
PATRIZIA MANGANARO
Edith
Stein: from Wroclaw to the world. A philosophical map and a new beginning 25
1.
The Internazionale Edith Stein-Bibliographie: a historical
consciousness 25
2.
This book: a Sprachleib (body language) 29
3.
This book: the contributions
and the unpublished manuscripts 32
4.
A postmodern figure and a
guiding thread: the idea of alterity 36
5.
The primacy of “ragion patica”:
mystical Erlebnis as
being-for-the-other 42
6.
Beginning again from Edith
Stein. With new openings for research 45
6.1. The University as the place of universal knowledge: Stein and Newman 46
6.2. The difficult relationship with W. Stern and the Anders case 47
6.3. Empathy and the objective spirit: Stein and Geiger 52
6.4. On the power of meaning: phenomenology and language 55
6.5. Phenomenological personalism and Trinitarian ontology. An appeal to
theologians 57
7.
With travelling companions 59
FRANCESCA NODARO
The
expansion of the Gemeinschaft as a network of relations. From the other of the Other to the Other 61
1.
In community work, a style of
life 61
2.
Towards new beginning of Stein
studies 66
3.
Empathy as experience of the
different (estraneo) and maternity as its existential manifestation (estrinsecazione) 68
4.
The problem of the other in the
fifth Cartesian meditation of Husserl 77
5.
Towards a scientific community
(and not only scientific) in dialogue 89
Beginning again from Edith Stein
The discovery of some unpublished manuscripts
SUSANNE BATZDORFF
Remembering
my beloved aunt Edith Stein, philosopher and saint 91
HANNA-BARBARA GERL-FALKOVITZ
“It’s
exactly this kind of Metaphysics that is missing…” A first objective appraisal
of Edith Stein’s Endliches und ewiges Sein and a first ‘biographical’ project. A
recently discovered piece from 1947 105
1.
The discovery 105
2.
The correspondents 106
3.
The initial judgment of an
expert 108
4.
Formal characteristics 109
5.
Homage 111
ULRICH DOBHAN
Maria
Amata Neyer and Edith Stein. Some recently discovered letters of Edith Stein 115
1.
Sr Maria Amata Neyer 115
2.
Edith Stein in the image of Sr
Maria Amata Neyer 119
3.
Sr Maria Amata Neyer’s decisive
contribution towards the study of Stein 121
4.
Some brief considerations 126
5.
Two recently discovered letters
of Edith Stein 127
RENÉ RASCHKE
“I’m
not a saint” (Edith Stein, 1918). The foundations of the reception of Edith
Stein in the German-speaking area 137
1.
The public perception of Edith
Stein during her lifetime 139
2.
Private memory, public memory
and biographical research 141
3.
The recovery of the Nachlass of
Edith Stein and the initiation of research 143
4.
Hagiography and study of
spirituality 145
5.
Critical dialogue 145
6.
Philosophical study and the
critical edition of her works 147
7.
Evaluation of current studies
and new openings for research 150
8.
Conclusions 154
ANGELA ALES BELLO
The
reception of Edith Stein. A bibliographical route 161
FABIO MINAZZI
A map
of Edith Stein’s “interior castle.” With reference to the first international
Stein bibliography 169
1.
The problem of technique and
the value of bibliographies 169
2.
The international Stein
bibliography 177
3.
Philosophical questions to be
answered 182
DANIELA VERDUCCI
Feminine
thinking in contrast. Edith Stein and Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka 189
1.
Introduction 189
2.
Creating a space for feminine
thought 193
3.
An empathic dissemination of
being in Edith Stein 196
4.
The intuitive dissemination of
the phenomenology of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka 203
5.
Conclusion 208
MARCELLA SERAFINI
The
influence of medieval philosophy in the thought of Edith Stein 215
1.
Between two ‘cathedrals’… 218
2.
A courageous synthesis 219
3.
A ‘community’ study [ricerca
‘comunitaria’] between the Middle Ages and Modernity 222
4.
The ‘feminine genius’ and philosophia perennis 225
5.
The turn of ‘Christian
philosophy’ 228
6.
A ‘post modern’ synthesis 231
NICOLA SALATO
Ecclesiological
reflections occasioned by Die Rezeption Edith
Steins 237
1.
The community of research and
the church 237
2.
A Christological ecclesiology 241
3.
The church, mystical body of
Christ 245
4.
A brief conclusion 247
DARIO EDOARDO VIGANÒ
The
figure of Edith Stein in films on the Shoah. Witness of hope in the darkness of
the Holocaust 251
1.
The cinema as witness and
memory 251
2.
The arrogance of power and
films on the Shoah 254
3.
The seventh mansion: the journey of
Edith Stein 258
3.1. A door that closes 259
3.2. The theme of contrast and conflict 261
ROSALIA CARUSO
Empathy
and community in the thought of Edith Stein 271
JAMES G. HART
Francesco
Alfieri as interpreter of Edith Stein 289
1.
The reception of the work of
Edith Stein289
2.
The problem of individuation in
Edith Stein and Duns Scotus 293
BÉNÉDICTE BOUILLOT
Edith
Stein and the context of French phenomenology. A paradoxical non-reception 301
TEREZA-BRINDUSA PALADE
Stein
exegesis in Romania. Paths of research inspired by
Die Rezeption Edith Steins 311
1.
The fascinating discovery of
realist metaphysics through the philosophical work of Stein 312
2.
The dialogue between Edith
Stein and Martin Heidegger 314
3.
Steinian phenomenology of
mystical experience 316
4.
Singularity, entropathy and
solidarity. Paths of research inspired by Die Rezeption Edith Steins 318
SALAHADDIN KHALILOV
Die Rezeption Edith Steins gives rise to a new phase of studies in
Azerbaijan. Reflections for a phenomenology of religion 323
KONUL BUNYADZADE
Woman
as seeker of perfection. A possible approach to the study of the thought of
Edith Stein in Azerbaijan 335
RONNY MIRON
“I
saw the Church growing without my people.” A Hebrew perspective on Edith Stein
inspired by Die Rezeption Edith Steins 345
1.
Preface 345
2.
The common starting point: a
deliberate choice, the intention, and the believer as a ‘pure I’ 349
3.
The divergence 354
3.1. Edith Stein
3.2. Yeshayahu Leibowitz 362
3.3. The encounter with radicalism 370
JUVENAL SAVIAN FILHO
The
impact of Die Rezeption Edith Steins in Brazil 377
DOMINIKA ALZBETA DUFFEROVA
The
revival of Stein studies in Slovakia. A story yet to be written 389
JOSHUA SINCLAIR
‘Empathy’
in my new film on Edith Stein: ‘A Rose in Winter’ 395
Appendix
FRANCESCO ALFIERI
The unpublished
writings of Edith Stein open up a new horizon of research. A survey of the
private papers of H. Conrad-Martius, H.-L. Van Breda and A.-T. Tymieniecka 413
1.
Hedwig Conrad-Martius: a vivid
memory of Edith Stein 419
2.
Herman-Leo Van Breda: recovery
of the manuscripts of Edith Stein 428
3.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and the
dispute (contesa) over the papers
between Edith Stein and Roman Ingarden 431
4.
Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz’s
Postscript 462
Critical
studies of Die Rezeption Edith Steins: A list 463
1.
Studies 463
2.
Articles in newspapers 464
3.
Notes and discussions 464
4.
Analysis of works 464
5.
Reviews 465
Authors 467
Names 477