Edith Stein on the State
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Metyper.2020.v0i23.7461Keywords:
State, phenomenology, community, power, essence, personAbstract
An Inquiry concerning the State (Eine Untersuchung über den Staat) is the last of four “phenomenological” writings that Edith Stein (1891-1942) composed before becoming a Catholic in 1922. The work contains Stein’s political philosophy and theory of the state and appeared in the phenomenological journal Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung in 1925. Her analyses are not only important theoretically; they also cast light on the political movements of her time (Adolf Hitler´s Mein Kampf was published in the same year) and indeed are quite relevant to the social turmoil and ideological controversies we are experiencing today. The following is a sketch of Stein’s life and intellectual activity and a review of main topics she treats in work: state and community, sovereignty, people and nation, law, morality and religion.
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Stein, E. Zum Problem der Einfühlung, Halle, Max Niemeyer, 1917; reprinted, Mu-nich G. Kaffke Verlag, 1980; translation by W. Stein, ICS Publications, vol. 3 of The Collected Works of Edith Stein Washington, 1989.
Stein, E. Psychische Kausalität and Individuum und Gemeinschaft in Beiträge zur phi-losophische Begründung del Psychologie und der Geisteswissenschaften, Jahrbuch, vol. 5, Halle, Niemeyer, 1922.
Stein, E. Eine Untersuchung über den Staat, Jahrbuch, vol. 7, Halle, Niemeyer, 1925; second edition with Beiträge, Tübingen, Niemeyer,, 1970.
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Stein, E. “Husserl and Aquinas: A Comparison,” Knowledge and Faith, vol. 8 of Edith Stein’s Complete Works, Washington, ICS publications, 2000.
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