The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross Discalced Carmelite, Volume One: Life in a Jewish Family, Her Unfinished Autobiographical Account by Stein, Edith; Koeppel, Josephine; Gelber, Dr. L.; Leuven, Romeaus - 1986

Washington, D.C: ICS Publications, 1986. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Ink name on front wrapper verso. 1986 Trade Paperback. viii, 548 pp. "This initial volume of the Collected Works offers, for the first time in English, Edith Stein's unabridged autobiography depicting herself as a child and young adult. Her text breaks abruptly because the Gestapo arrested, then deported her to Auschwitz in 1942. Edith Stein is one of the most significant German women of our century. At the age of twenty-five she became the first assistant to the founder of Phenomenology, Edmund Husserl. She was much in demand as a write-lecturer after her conversion from atheism to Catholicism. Later, as a Carmelite nun, she maintained her intellectual pursuits until she died, along with so many other Jewish people, in the Holocaust. By making this story available in English, the Institute of Carmelite Studies provides an eye-witness account of persons and activities on the scene at the time when psychology and philosophy became separate disciplines."--rear wrapper