From Edith Stein’s autobiography and epistolary, the years of her person formation

Abstract

The present contribution is intended to demonstrate the importance of Edith Stein’s education, both humanistic and academic, received during her years of university study, for the development of her work and her very existence as a philosopher. Through the empathic listening of what she herself recounts in autobiographical notes and written letters to friends and colleagues, I seek to show the connection between the lived experiences in the two cities where she advances her academic studies and the themes dealt within written papers in the years immediately following her academic studies, which, on several occasions, will return even in her more mature production. All of this after having first clarified what Stein herself understood by education.