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Introduction -- Edith Stein and Hedwig Conrad-Martius: A Metaphysical Dialogue on the Origin of the Human Soul -- The Influence of Hedwig Conrad-Martiuss Early Conception of the Soul on Edith Steins “Individual and Community” -- Contribution towards Reconstructing a Neglected “Schism” in Early Phenomenology: The Cases of Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein -- Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Edith Stein, and the Question of Idealism and Realism -- Philosophy of Nature and Metaphysics: The Relevance of Hedwig Conrad-Martiuss Phenomenological Analyses -- Eternal Being and Creaturely Existence: Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein on Divine-Human Ontology -- Steins Critique of Heidegger on Temporality, Eternity, and Transcendencewith Special Attention to Conrad-Martiuss Contribution -- Side by Side as if on a Narrow Ridge: Edith Stein and Hedwig Conrad-Martius Living Out Christianity and Facing Atheistic Philosophy.

This book focuses on the unique philosophical relationship between Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein. The two phenomenologists discussed and debated insights and ideas about the nature of the soul, phenomenology, personhood and individuality, animal life, nature, being, and God. This book brings together for the first time leading international scholars of phenomenology to explore the philosophical exchange between both Conrad-Martius and Stein. This is an important book for understanding the development of the phenomenological movement and key phenomenological ideas and methods. It provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the key issues that helped frame both phenomenologists philosophical trajectories. Additionally, the ideas of Conrad-Martius and Stein are mined to address contemporary questions surrounding such topics as personal identity, animal versus human personhood, contemporary atheism, and the relationship between religion and science. The book will have great appeal to phenomenologists, philosophers, and historians of philosophy. .