Phenomenological Reviews

Series | Book | Chapter

141888

On community

Edith Stein and Gerda Walther

Anna Maria Pezzella

pp. 47-56

Abstract

Edith Stein and Gerda Walther place great value on community, for both thinkers view it as the fundamental, common, and necessary terrain in which one can grow and be formed as human beings. Although they share a phenomenological framework, they describe community in different ways. Stein starts from I-experience to reach her understanding community, which is analyzed deeply and in all its constitutive elements, whereas Walther moves from the social self and, hence, from the background of psychic interiority in which the communal we moves and lives. However, through different ways, both thinkers arrive at the same conclusion: they converge on the role played by the I-center in the actualization of the lived experience of community.

Publication details

Published in:

Calcagno Antonio (2018) Gerda Walther's phenomenology of sociality, psychology, and religion. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 47-56

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97592-4_4

Full citation:

Pezzella Anna Maria (2018) „On community: Edith Stein and Gerda Walther“, In: A. Calcagno (ed.), Gerda Walther's phenomenology of sociality, psychology, and religion, Dordrecht, Springer, 47–56.