Body, Text, and Science: The Literacy of Investigative Practices and the Phenomenology of Edith Stein: 144 (Phaenomenologica, 144) - Softcover

Sawicki, M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402002629 ISBN 13: 9781402002625

Publisher: Springer, 2001

Synopsis

What is "scientific" about the natural and human sciences? Precisely this: the legibility of our worlds and the distinctive reading strategies that they provoke. That account of the essence of science comes from Edith Stein, who as HusserI's assistant 1916-1918 labored in vain to bring his massive Ideen to publication, and then went on to propose her own solution to the problem of finding a unified foundation for the social and physical sciences. Stein argued that human bodily life itself affords direct access to the interplay of natural causality, cultural motivation, and personal initiative in history and technology. She developed this line of approach to the sciences in her early scholarly publications, which too soon were overshadowed by her religious lectures and writings, and eventually were obscured by National Socialism's ideological attack on philosophies of empathy. Today, as her church prepares to declare Stein a saint, her secular philosophical achievements deserve another look.

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Body, Text, and Science Edith Stein was Husserl's assistant from 1916-1918. She labored in vain to bring his massive "Ideen" to publication. This study explores the hermeneutical background of Stein's phenomenology and shows that she composed crucial passages of the "Ideen" manuscripts. Full description

Synopsis

What is scientific about the natural and human sciences? Precisely this: the legibility of our worlds and the distinctive reading strategies that they provoke. That proposal comes from Edith Stein, who as Husserl's assistant 1916-1918 labored in vain to bring his massive "Ideen" to publication. She argued that human bodily life itself affords direct access to the interplay of natural causality, cultural motivation, and personal initiative.This study explores the hermeneutical background of Stein's phenomenology and shows that she composed crucial passages of the "Ideen" manuscripts. Stein's own works on empathy and on psychology establish that natural science is a cultural achievement, resting on the ability to isolate caused data by recognizing and subtracting motivated data from raw data. This subtractive literacy is the most basic scientific competence, and it is fundamentally interpersonal. The reality of the illegible causal remainder overcomes the critiques of science recently offered by psychoanalytic and standpoint feminisms.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402002629
• ISBN 13: 9781402002625
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328