Philosophy of Edith Stein

Mette Lebech has been a lecturer in philosophy at Maynooth University since 1998. She holds degrees in philosophy from the universities of Copenhagen, Louvain-la-Neuve and Leuven and has lectured and published widely on human dignity, bioethics and the philosophy of Edith Stein. Her publications include On the Problem of Human Dignity: A Hermeneutical and Phenomenological Investigation (2009), which employs Stein’s phenomenology to explore the experiential necessity of the idea of human dignity. She is the founding President of the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES). Her current research interest is in phenomenological value theory.

• Contents: Edith Stein as a European Philosopher – The Constitution of the Body – Motivation and Value – The Motivated Constitution of the State – An Analysis of Human Dignity pace Stein – The Formation of Christian Europe – Education of the Human Person – Woman – Phenomenology and Thomism – Beginning to Read Finite and Eternal Being – Heidegger and the Meaning of Being – A Steinian Approach to Dementia.