An Autobiography
Translation by Josephine Koeppel, O.C.D.
This initial volume of the Collected Works offers, for the first time in English, Edith Stein's unabridged autobiography depicting herself as a child and young adult. Her text breaks abruptly because the Gestapo arrested, then deported her to Auschwitz in 1942.
Edith Stein is oneof the most significant German women of our century. At the age of 25 she became the first assistant to the founder of Phenomenology, Edmund Hussert. She was much in demand as a writer-lecturer after her conversion from atheism to Catholocism. Later, as a Carmelite nun, she maintained her intellectual pursuits until she died, along with so many other Jewish people, in the Holocaust.
By making this story available in English, the Institute of Carmelite Studies provides an eye-witness account of persons and activities on the scene when phychology and philosophy became separate disciplines.
A Preface, the Forward and Afterward to Edith's text bring out many background details of the rich story she has left us.
Includes map and 11 pages of photos.
ICS Publications, Soft cover, 548 pages |
