Edith SteinReviews

Vol III Collected Works

anthology of writings

NB This edition is not part of the ICS collected Works, it is an earlier translation, the later edition is better

Edith Stein is a captivating writer. Her pieces of theater and small poems reveal a deep familiarity with Scripture and a very deep understanding of human beings.
Her description of the four women saints she writes about is inspiring, and a saint writing about another saint is always beautiful.
Highly recommended!

This text requires some familiarity with Husserl's phenomenological work, though Stein is not wholly dependent on him. Underlying the validity of psychology or sociology professionally and good-neighborliness generally, Stein's inquiry presses on our ability to perceive the experiences of others. For her, this is not a matter merely of perception, but is a feature of the individual as constituted in a 'sensed, living body."½

Pensamientos de Edith Stein

Despite the fact that Teresa Benedicta did not have time to edit the final manuscript for this book before she was hauled off to the death camps at Auschwitz, this is a brilliant, searching, and completely approachable and understandable study of the Spirituality of St. John of the Cross. A masterpiece of Carmelite Spirituality and sensibility.