The Phenomenology of Edith Stein with Dr. Antonio Calcagno (King's University College, Western Uni).

Описание: The Following video is a continuation of my series on Classical German Philosophy and Post-Kantian Thought. The title of today's episode is: The Phenomenology of Edith Stein (1891-1942). This episode was crafted to bring much more attention to Stein's philosophical writings.

For this extra special episode on the German Jewish philosopher: activist, Discalced Carmelite nun, beautified saint, and phenomenologist, Edith Stein; I invited the well renowned scholar and philosopher, Dr. Antonio Calcagno (King's University College at Western University Canada). It was the masterful writings of Dr. Antonio Calcagno that first made me aware of Stein's inspiring phenomenology. Due to his passionate presentations and lucid writings on Stein, I knew that Dr. Calcagno would be the perfect guest to help navigate the viewer through the very complex, and tragic life of Edith Stein.

In this Episode: Dr. Antonio Calcagno discusses the important aspects of Stein's life, and also explains who her important philosophical influences were. We also take a deep dive into important philosophical aspects of Stein's phenomenology by investigating Stein conceptions of consciousness, lived experience, "the I," the given, community and personality. We also touch on Stein's important anthropology, and unique social political philosophy.

One of the unique surprises of the video is directed towards the end of the episode where we discuss Stein's important student, Gerda Walther.

Edith Stein is an important figure in the history of philosophy as well as a unique voice in the history of women philosophers, and Dr. Calcagno has done a wonderful job of bringing Stein's essence and thought back to life for the viewer.

Dr. Antonio Calcagno is a full professor of Philosophy at King’s University College at Western University in Canada. In September of 2023, Dr. Antonio Calcagno was named a fellow at the royal society of Canada.

Dr. Calcagno’s Research includes Recent and contemporary European Philosophy, Mediaeval and Renaissance Philosophy, as well as Social and Political Thought. His scholarship focuses on community and intersubjectivity, statehood, self- and personhood, consciousness, humanism and post-humanism. His current research focuses on the idea of political impasse as a possible generative moment of thinking that offers both resistance and new possibilities of selfhood. Dr. Calcagno also works on phenomenological accounts of psyche and personhood, especially in Munich phenomenology and in the works of Edith Stein and Gerda Walther.

He is currently developing an account of micro and passive sources of selfhood, especially in relation to psyche, which he hopes to publish as a monograph tentatively titled: 'The Life That Is Not My Own.'

Dr. Antonio Calcagno has 5 Monographs:

5. Antonio Calcagno, On Political Impasse: Power, Resistance, and New Forms of Selfhood (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2022).

4. Antonio Calcagno, Lived Experience from the Inside Out: Social and Political Philosophy in Edith Stein (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press: 2014), Winner of the Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology for best book in Phenomenology 2014.

3. Antonio Calcagno, Badiou and Derrida: Politics, Events and Their Time (New York/London: Continuum, 2007).

2. Antonio Calcagno, The Philosophy of Edith Stein (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007).

1. Antonio Calcagno, Giordano Bruno and the Logic of Coincidence, in Renaissance and Baroque Studies, vol. 23 (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1998).

Dr. Antonio Calcagno:

https://www.kings.uwo.ca/academics/fa...

https://www.kings.uwo.ca/about-kings/...

https://westernu.academia.edu/Antonio...