Gerda Walther’s Phenomenology of Sociality, Psychology, and Religion

Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College, London, 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 the editor of Edith Stein: Women, Social-Political Philosophy, Theology, Metaphysics and Public History: New Approaches and Applications (Dordrecht: Springer, 2015).

• Editor’s Introduction.- I. The Life and Work of Gerda Walther.- Rodney K.B. Parker: Gerda Walther (1897-1977): A Sketch of a Life.- Marina Pia Pellegrino: Gerda Walther: Searching for the Sense of Things, Following the Traces of Lived Experiences.- II. Social Ontology and the Self.- Alessandro Salice and Genki Uemura: Social Acts and Communities: Walther Between Husserl and Reinach.- Anna Maria Pezzella:  On Community: Edith Stein and Gerda Walther.- Antonio Calcagno: Gerda Walther and the Possibility of a Non-Intentional We of Community.- Julia Mühl: Human Beings as Social Beings: Gerda Walther’s Anthropological Approach.- Christina M. Gschwandtner:  Körper, Leib, Gemüt, Seele, Geist: Conceptions of the Self in Early Phenomenology.- Manuela Massa: What is the Condition for the Members of Social Communities to Be “Real” People, According to Gerda Walther?III. Religion and Mysticism.- Gerda Walther (Translated byRodney K.B. Parker): Phenomenology of Mysticism, Introduction and Chapter 1.- Angela Ales Bello:  The Sense of Mystical Experience According to Gerda Walther.- Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray: Phenomenological Approaches to the Uncanny and the Divine: Adolf Reinach and Gerda Walther on Mystical Experience.

“I recommend this book as an introduction for the English-reading academic philosopher to Gerda Walther’s thought. … I look forward to reading much more work on Gerda Walther.” (Charlene Elsby, Symposium, c-scp.org, July 07, 2019)