Lebech, Mette (2010) Beginning to read Stein's Finite and Eternal Being. Phenonenology, 4. pp. 139-154. ISSN 978-973-1997-71-1

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Stein called Finite and Eternal Being her ‘spiritual legacy’. The access to this legacy has been restricted by the dif-ficulty of assessing exactly what it is that Stein is doing in the work. It has been regarded as a work of Thomist philosophy, but a closer reading reveals it as quite critical of St Thomas. After the publication of the appendices of the work, it has become fairly clear that it can be conceived as a critique of the early Heidegger. Stein understood her task as being that of bringing together Aristotelian and Modern philosophy, the lat-ter represented by Phenomenology and the former by Scholas-ticism. We shall propose (the beginnings of ) an interpretation of the work that sees it as the culmination of Stein’s phenome-nological project, as well as a work standing in the tradition of the philosophia perennis.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Stein; Finite; Eternal; Being;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > Philosophy
Item ID:	13490
Depositing User:	Mette Lebech
Date Deposited:	29 Oct 2020 10:38
Journal or Publication Title:	Phenonenology
Publisher:	Zeta Books
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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