Edith Stein’s An Investigation Concerning the State: Sociality, Nationhood, Ethics

EVA REYES-GACITÚA, Dr. in Dogmatic Theology for the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with the thesis “El Espíritu Santo, origen de la esponsalidad: En la Expositio super Cantica canticorum de Guillermo de Saint-Thierry.”  She was the first Chilean woman to receive her doctorate degree at the School of Theology of PUC. She also holds a major in Education and is a Religion Teacher.  Currently, she works as a professor and researcher at the Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta Chile, where she is the Director of the UCN Journal “Cuadernos de Teología” and is in charge of teaching affairs. She has written several publications. She is a member of the Chilean Theology Society; member and secretary of the International Association of Patristic Studies; member and secretary of ALALITE  (Latin American Society of Literature and Theology); and member of the Edith Stein Interdisciplinary Research Center, PUC, Chile. Antonio Calcagno isProfessor of Philosophy at King’s University College at Western University, London, Canada. In 2015 he became a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Giordano Bruno and the Logic of Coincidence (1998), Badiou and Derrida: Politics, Events and Their Time (2007), The Philosophy of Edith Stein (2007), Lived Experience from the Inside Out: Social and Political Philosophy in Edith Stein (2014). He is also the editor of Gerda Walther's Phenomenology of Sociality, Psychology, and Religion (2018).

• Chapter 1: Introduction (Eva Reyes Gacitúa and Antonio Calcagno).- Chapter 2: Bioethical Implications of Edith Stein’s An Investigation Concerning the Stat (Alberto Rojas Osorio).- Chapter 3: The Concept of Individual Person in An Investigation Concerning the State of Edith Stein (César Lambert Ortiz).- Chapter 4: The Issue of State Power and Its Abuses as Shown by the Literary Texts of Gertrud von le Fort in the light of Edith Stein’s An Investigation Concerning the Stat (Clemens Franken).- Chapter 5: The Role of Empathy in the Edith Stein’s Theory of the State (Eduardo González Di Pierro).- Chapter 6: Persons in Chilean Positive Law in Relation to Edith Stein’s Account of the State (María Eliana Martínez Fernández).- Chapter 7: Woman and State: A Reading of Edith Stein (Eva Reyes-Gacitúa).- Chapter 8: The Justification of the Modern State in An Investigation Concerning the State of Edith Stein with relation to Political Theology (Fredy Parra Carrasco).-Chapter 9: State and Mysticism (Juan Francisco Pinilla Aguilera).- Chapter 10: Sovereignty and Ethical Exigencies of the State (Luis Mariano de la Maza).- Chapter 11: Certain Legal and Philosophical Presuppositions About the Idea of Law in Edith Stein’s An Investigation Concerning the Stat (Marcelo Gidi Thumala, Sj).- Chapter 12: The People and Its Relation to the State in Edith Stein’s An Investigation Concerning the Stat (Marcela Aranda Escobar).- Chapter 13: The Place of the Notion of State in Phenomenology (Mariano Crespo).- Chapter 14: Forms of the State. An approach to the work of Edith Stein from its Aristotelian influences (María Esther Gómez).- Chapter 15: The Present Process of the  Constitutional Assembly and the Relevance of Edith Stein’s An Investigation Concerning the State(Soledad Alvear).- Chapter 16: The Challenges Posed by the Community of Law-Givers and Law-Followers in Edith Stein’s Idea of the State (Antonio Calcagno).