Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein. The Question of the Phenomenological Method

Abstract

Phenomenological philosophy, as E. Husserl conceived it, has chiefly a methodological sense. Some of Husserl's disciples have applied phenomenological method to different anthropological and metaphysical issues, and in doing so have retrieved important aspects of the philosophical tradition: E. Stein’s philosophy is a clear example of this. Fidelity to phenomenology is not for her an obstacle, but a way to discover new thematic possibilities within the phenomenological method; and for that reason she also modifies Husserl’s method somewhat, searching for a way to extend it to a more realist dimension of phenomenological essence.