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Description
This work explores Edith Stein's phenomenology of values as found in her early work-specifically, in her Contributions to a Philosophical Foundation for Psychology and the Humanities (1922).
Mette Lebech makes a constructive exposition of its implications by discussing the experience of value and motivation (Part I), that which constitutes a value-response (Part II), and how certain later approximations to value-phenomenology can be clarified by means of Stein's thought (Part III). Stein's synthesis of Husserl's founding of the sciences, along with Scheler's phenomenological discussion of values, emotion, and sociality, carries Stein's specific contributions, such as: the distinction between psychic causality and motivation-which allows for a clear interpretation of how emotion relates to values-(Part I) and the understanding of how the experience of value and preference constitutes the personal “I,” the basis for the value hierarchy, the psyche, the structure of intersubjectivity, and the world (Part II). Finally, Lebech examines the vestiges of value phenomenology found in Heidegger, Levinas, and de Beauvoir in the context of a Steinian discussion (Part III).
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Formulation of the Problem and Methodological Approach
Part I: The Experience of Value and Motivation
2. What is a Value?
3. The Experience of Motivation
Part II: That Which I Constitute in the Experience of Value and Motivation
4. That Which I Constitute in the Experience of Motivation According to its Essence
5. That Which I Constitute in the Concrete Experience of Preferred Motivation According to its Essence
6. Belief According to its Essence
7. Concerning That Which I Constitute in the Preference of Belief
Part III: Contextualisation of Steinian Value Phenomenology in Terms of Later Phenomenologists
8. The Turning Away from Empathy, Values and the Person in Heidegger
9. The Evasion of Motivation and of the Person in Levinas
10. De Beauvoir and the Quest for Being an Other Person
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
Product details
| Published | 02 Apr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781666939743 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | Edith Stein Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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