[Revised entry by Thomas Szanto and Dermot Moran on May 8, 2024.
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Edith Stein (1891 – 1942) was a realist phenomenologist associated with the Gottingen school and later a Christian metaphysician. She was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in 1922 and was ordained a Carmelite nun in 1933. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. She was subsequently declared a Catholic martyr and saint. She campaigned publicly on issues relating to women’s rights and education. Stein is known philosophically primarily for her phenomenological work on empathy and affectivity, her contributions as research assistant to…

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