Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-146) and index
Edith Stein : a controversial and paradoxical life -- Stein's phenomenology of community : individual and/or superindividual? -- Persona politica : the person as point of unity and difference in the state -- Empathy as a feminine structure of phenomenological consciousness -- Freedom, responsibility, and intentionality : the question of the specifically human -- Is the state responsible for the immortal soul of the person? -- Die fÞlle oder das nichts? Martin Heidegger and Edith Stein on the question of being