Abstract
An Inquiry concerning the State (Eine Untersuchung uber den Staat) is the last of four “phenomenological” writings that Edith Stein (1891-1942) composed before becoming a Catholic in 1922. The work contains Stein’s political philosophy and theory of the state and appeared in the phenomenological journal Jahrbuch fur Philosophie und phanomenologische Forschung in 1925. Her analyses are not only important theoretically; they also cast light on the political movements of her time (Adolf Hitler´s Mein Kampf was published in the same year) and indeed are quite relevant to the social turmoil and ideological controversies we are experiencing today. The following is a sketch of Stein’s life and intellectual activity and a review of main topics she treats in work: state and community, sovereignty, people and nation, law, morality and religion.
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