Lived Experience from the Inside Out: Social and Political Philosophy in Edith Stein

December 2014 | paper | ISBN 978-0-8207-0478-4  Winner of the 2015 Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize in Phenomenology Review: “Focuses on Edith Stein's philosophy works produced before she converted to Catholicism. An impressive work of seminal scholarship, Lived Experience From The Inside Out is highly recommended for academic library collections in general, and Edith Stein studies supplemental reading lists in particular.” — Library Bookwatch “Concentrating on a relatively neglected area of study, Calcagno . . . systematically explores the role of empathy, relations between subjects, the lived experience of community and the state for the construction of supra-subjective realities. Calcagno does a thorough job of pointing out the internal coherence of Stein’s theory of social and political reality, starting from individual lived experience. Overall, this is an important contribution to Stein scholarship and, more broadly, to the phenomenology of social and political life. Recommended.”