Person and Dignity in Edith Stein’s Writings

Person and Dignity in Edith Stein’s WritingsEdith Stein is widely known as a historical figure, a victim of the Holocaust and a saint, but still unrecognised as a philosopher. It was philosophy, however, that constituted the core of her life. Today her complete writings are available to scholars and therefore her thinking can be properly investigated and evaluated. Who is a human person? And what is his or her dignity according to Edith Stein? Those are the two leading questions investigated in

"The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana

sometimes featuring grand debates about the nation's future

Ahnenkult und seine gesteigerte Form Heroenkult sind in den antiken Kulturen der Mittelmeerwelt eine bekannte Erscheinung und gut untersucht

in the eighth century BCE

before being rediscovered at the beginning of the print era

Die jüngeren Brüder des neuen Kurfürsten wehren sich gegen die testamentarisch etablierte Primogeniturordnung

the book examines words like the Tupi îuká (to kill) and manõ (to die)

Alton Augustus Adams

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To paraphrase James Baldwin

Written by a line-up of international scholars and critics

The book explores how personal crises