Lebech, Mette
(2016)
Women in Society: The Critical Potential
of Stein’s Feminism for Our Understanding
of the State.
In:
Edith Stein: Women, Socio-Political Philosophy, Theology, Metaphysics and Public History. New Approaches and Applications.
Springer, pp. 25-33.
ISBN 978-3-319-21123-7
Abstract
In this paper I intend to place Stein’s philosophy of woman in the context
of, on one hand, her (earlier) work on society and the state and, on the other hand,
her (later) work on philosophical and theological anthropology. I want to do this in
order to assess Stein’s understanding of the role of women in society (as a special
case of the relationship of human beings with society) and in order to evaluate the
critical potential of Stein’s thought for the organization of the state. First, I briefly
discuss the nature and context of Stein’s works on women, society and the human
being. Second, I then focus on three key terms: vocation, power and state in order to
bring out their relationship to one other. Finally, I address the question of whether
Stein’s thought on woman and the state can be summed up by the idea that a signifi -
cant part of the vocation of the human being is to manage power in and of the state.
| Item Type: |
Book Section
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| Keywords: |
Women in Society; Critical Potential;
Stein’s Feminism; Edith Stein; Understanding
of the State; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts & Humanities > Philosophy |
| Item ID: |
13650 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21124-4 |
| Depositing User: |
Mette Lebech
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| Date Deposited: |
20 Nov 2020 12:38 |
| Publisher: |
Springer |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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