Body, Text, and Science: The Literacy of Investigative Practices and the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

by Marianne Sawicki

What is "scientific" about the natural and human sciences? Precisely this: the legibility of our worlds and the distinctive reading strategies that they provoke. That account of the essence of science comes from Edith Stein, who as HusserI's assistant 1916-1918 labored in vain to bring his massive Ideen to publication, and then went on to propose her own solution to the problem of finding a unified foundation for the social and physical sciences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402002629
• ISBN13: 9781402002625
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"