Contributors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Wide-Ranging Impact of Edith Stein's Thought-New Approaches, Applications, and Insights; Part I: Women; Chapter 2: From the "Neutral" Human Being to Gender Difference: Phenomenological and Dual Anthropology in Edith Stein; Thesis and Argument; The Analysis of the Human Being According to Edith Stein; The Identity of the Human Subject; From the Single Individual to Intersubjectivity: The Theme of Empathy; The Interpersonal Dimension; From Universality to Duality; Dual Anthropology; References

Chapter 3: Women in Society: The Critical Potential of Stein's Feminism for Our Understanding of the StateStein's Works on Woman, the Human Being, Society and the State; Key Terms; Vocation; Power; State; Is a Significant Part of the Vocation of the Human Being to Manage Power in and of the State?; Reference; Chapter 4: Women's Existence, Woman's Soul: Essence and Existence in Edith Stein's Later Feminism; Stein, Husserl, and "Existence"; Stein, Husserl, and "Essence"; "Spirituality of the Christian Woman"; References; Part II: Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy

Chapter 5: Intersubjectivity and Community in Edith Stein's ThoughtThe Possibility of Community; Empathy: A Bridge to the Other and to the Self; The Particularity of Community: The Lived Experience of Community; Responsibility and Freedom; Imagination; Motivation; Life Force; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Eternal Life: A Phenomenological Exploration from the Perspective of Edith Stein's Description of Person and Community; Chapter 7: The Individuality of the Human Person in the Phenomenological Works of Edith Stein; Introduction

Two Ways of Considering Personal Individuation in Edith Stein's Dissertation on EmpathyThe Numerical Perspective; The Qualitative Approach; The Steinian Conception of Personal Individuation and Its Development; The Existential Impact on the Development of a Theory; References; Chapter 8: The Inseparability of Consciousness from Embodiment in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein; References; Chapter 9: The Influence of Adolf Reinach on Edith Stein's Concept of the State: Similarities and Differences; References; Chapter 10: Edith Stein on Autism; Reference; Part III: Theology

Chapter 11: A Phenomenology of Ethics and Excess: Experiences of Givenness and Transcendence According to Edith SteinEmpathy and the Givenness of Transcendence: An Overview; Experience of God as Experience of Excess; "Experience of God" as Non-experience; References; Chapter 12: Feeling as the Bond Between Soul and Body in St. John of the Cross, The Living Flame of Love; Feeling in the Soul ; Verbal Context; The Living Flame of Love: The Poem and Its Declaration; Statistical Base; Synthesis of Feeling in the Passages in Flame B; Feeling in Ordinary Language