Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922

Edith Stein lived an unconventional life. Born into a devout Jewish family, she drifted into atheism in her mid teens, took up the study of philosophy, studied with Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, became a pioneer in the women's movement in Germany, a military nurse in World War I, converted from atheism to Catholic Christianity, became a Carmelite nun, was murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, and canonized by Pope John Paul II.

Author: Alasdair MacIntyre
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 12/02/2005
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.14w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780742549951